gallon

n. 加仑（容量单位）

n. (Gallon)人名；(法、意、瑞典)加隆

中文词源

gallon 加仑（液量单位）

词源不详。可能来自PIE*gel, 膨胀，鼓起，词源同dolphin, calf. 即鼓起来的一个容器。-on, 大词后缀。

gallon: gallon: [13] English acquired gallon from Old Northern French galon. This was a descendant of medieval Latin gallēta, a word for a ‘jug’ which was also used as a unit of measurement for wine. It may have been of Celtic origin. An early modern English dialect form of gallon was gawn, which added to tree produced gantry [16], originally a ‘wooden stand for barrels’.
=> gantry
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."

1. 音译“加仑”。

1. The price of petrol is coming down by four pence a gallon.: 汽油的价格每加仑降了4便士。