noun, masculine/ɡaˈlon/plural: galones
English or American gallon (a unit of liquid measure equivalent to 4.55 or 3.79 L)
Borrowed from English gallon.
/ɡaˈlon/
English or American gallon (a unit of liquid measure equivalent to 4.55 or 3.79 L)
Borrowed from English gallon.
braid; stripe, chevron
“tres galones en su uniforme” — three stripes on his/her uniform
Borrowed from French galon, from Late Latin galum, galus (“measure of wine”), from Vulgar Latin *galla (“vessel”), possibly from Gaulish [Term?], ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“goblet”).