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Gallo-1|ˈgæləʊ|
combining form (after Gr. analogies) of L. Gallus a Gaul.
1. In classical Latin it occurs only in Gallo-græci, Gauls who went east and settled in Asia Minor; also Gallo-græcia, the country inhabited by these Gauls, Galatia. Hence † Gallo-græcians, † Gallo-greeks pl., Galatians.
1601Holland Pliny I. 221 King Antiochus hauing in battaile slaine..a brave horsman of the Gallogreeks or Galatians, became maister of his horse. 1618Bolton Florus ii. xi. (1636) 124 Those Gallo-Græcians, as their compound name sheweth, were a mixt and mongrell people. [1625Bacon Ess., Vicissitude (Arb.) 573 It is true, the Gaules were Westerne; But we reade but of two Incursions of theirs; the one to Gallo-Grecia, the other to Rome.]
2. Used with the sense of ‘Gallic’ (i.e. French) in various mod.Eng. formations.
a. Prefixed (with hyphen) to certain designations of nationality, as ˌGallo-Aˈmerican a., of combined French and American character; ˌGallo-ˈBriton, one partly French and partly British (either in birth or sympathies); ˌGallo-ˈCeltic a., belonging to the Celts of France; ˌGallo-ˈGerman a., belonging to both French and Germans.
b. In objective formations on assumed Gr. types (in most instances adopted from Fr.), as ˈGalloman [ad. F. Gallomane (Gr. -µανής mad after)] = Gallomaniac; Galloˈmania [ad. F. Gallomanie (Gr. -µανία: see mania)], an unreasoning attachment to France or French customs; Galloˈmaniac, one who is affected with Gallomania; also as adj.; ˈGallophil [Gr. -ϕίλος loving, friendly to], a friend of France and its interests; Gaˈllophilism, fondness for France, friendliness towards it; ˈGallophobe [Gr. -ϕόβος fearing], one who is affected with Gallophobia; also as adj.; Galloˈphobia [ad. F. Gallophobie, Gr. -ϕοβία dread of], morbid dread of the French, or abhorrence of what is French.
1797T. Jefferson Writ. (1859) IV. 186 If Louisiana becomes a *Gallo-American colony. 1828Sydney Smith in Mem. (1885) II. 293 The travels of the Gallo-American gentleman..are, I suppose, those of M. Simond.
1819Hermit in Lond. III. 116 A kind of Amphibious animal, a *Gallo-Briton.
a1711Ken Blandina Poet. Wks. 1721 IV. 516 Death and Infernal Pow'rs decreed The *Gallo-Celtick Saints should bleed.
1861J. G. Sheppard Fall Rome viii. 441 The great *Gallo-German river.
1787T. Jefferson Writ. (1859) II. 317 It will be of great consequence to France and England, to have America governed by a *Galloman or Angloman. 1802Ibid. VIII. 163 To suppose we are Gallomen or Anglomen [sic!]. 1819Metropolis (ed. 2) III. viii. 180 This Galloman appeared a little put down.
1877D. M. Wallace Russia xxv. 388 In a word, *Gallomania had become the prevailing social epidemic of the time.
1819Hermit in Lond. III. 117 The British *Gallomaniac ought to know better. 1840Disraeli Corr. w. Sister 15 Oct. (1886) 163 On dit that even Lord Holland, that old Gallomaniac, ratted to Palmerston. 1897Daily News 28 Aug. 4/6 In the years which immediately preceded the French Revolution the British aristocracy was notoriously Gallomaniac.
1889Times 26 Jan. 7/3 The appointment of Señor Albareda to the Quirinal would not be looked on favourably at Rome, because he is a very pronounced *Gallophil.
1894Westm. Gaz. 16 Feb. 7/2 The ardent *Gallophilism which characterized many Russian gatherings at the time of the Toulon and Paris fêtes.
1883Pall Mall G. 31 July 8/2 The Opinion says ‘the *Gallophobes on the other side of the Channel will gain nothing by their agitation against us’. 1886Athenæum 6 Mar. 324/2 Mr. Gallenga is too pronounced a Gallophobe to be able to make his French attachés true to life. 1897Pall Mall G. 2 June 7/3 Gallophobe Englishmen grew alarmed, but they have got their sop.
1803in Spirit Publ. Jrnls. (1804) VII. 246 Strong renewed symptoms of Anglo and *Gallo-phobia. 1881Athenæum 6 Aug. 165/3 His [Landor's] Gallophobia evidently strikes Prof. Colvin with astonishment. |