EuroLex/E/Gallon


 * Original language: English (from Old Northern French galon)
 * Original form and meaning: 'a unit of volume for liquid measure equal to eight pints: in Britain (also imperial gallon), equivalent to 4.55 litres; in the US, equivalent to 3.79 litres' [source: ]

(Note: If the status is not specifically indicated then the word is stylistically neutral and generally used; if earlier meaning and status equals current use the former may be expressed by writing "dito". Cf. also the project guidelines.)


 * Annotations: *DEA = Dictionary of European Anglicisms by Manfred Görlach (2001), Oxford: OUP.; **CODEE = The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology by T.F. Hoad (1986), Oxford: Clarendon.

Information on Other Languages

 * Icelandic: gallon/gallón [kal:o(u)n], beg20c, foreignism / technical: fully accepted but still marked as English.
 * Romanian: galon [ga'lon], end19c, via French, technical: not (or no longer) recognized as English.
 * Russian: gallon, beg19c, foreignism.
 * Bulgarian: galon, beg20c, foreignism.
 * Albanian: gallon, beg20c, technical: not (or no longer) recognized as English.
 * Greek: ghaloni, via Italian.

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