Gallon

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Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French galon, from the base of medieval Latin galleta, galletum ‘pail, liquid measure’, perhaps of Celtic origin.


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From Middle English gallon, galoun, galun, from Old Northern French galun, galon(“liquid measure”) (compare Old French jalon), from Late Latin galum, galus(“measure of wine”), from Vulgar Latin *galla(“vessel”), possibly from Gaulish[Term?], ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kel-(“goblet”). Cognate with Ancient Greek κύλιξ(kúlix, “cup”), Sanskrit कलश(kalaśa, “jar, pitcher; measure of liquid”). Related to Old French gille(“wine measure”) (from Medieval Latin gillō(“earthenware jar”)), Old French jale(“bowl”), Old French jaloie(“measure of capacity”).


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gallon (n.)

English measure of capacity (containing four quarts), usually for liquids, late 13c., from Old North French galon, corresponding to Old French jalon, name of a liquid measure roughly equivalent to a modern gallon," which is related to (perhaps augmentative of) jale "bowl," from Medieval Latin or Vulgar Latin diminutive form galleta "bucket, pail," also "a measure of wine," a word of unknown origin, perhaps from Gaulish galla "vessel."