The story
- LatinGallus
- LatinGallia
- Frenchgallium
- English todaygallium
Borrowed from French gallium, named by its discoverer Lecoq, after Latin Gallia (“Gaul”). It was claimed that Lecoq had named the element after himself, since gallus is the Latin translation of the French le coq, but Lecoq denied this in an article of 1877.
Words from the same roots
LatinGallia all →
Gallia County
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.