Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An Oromo.
- noun The Oromo language.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of a race of eastern Africa, inhabiting the region from Abyssinia southward to the vicinity of the equator, and numerous in Abyssinia itself.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Mr. Johnston asserts that the word Galla is “merely another form of Calla, which in the ancient Persian, Sanscrit, Celtic, and their modern derivative languages, under modified, but not changed terms, is expressive of blackness.”
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Mr. Johnston asserts that the word Galla is "merely another form of _Calla_, which in the ancient Persian, Sanscrit, Celtic, and their modern derivative languages, under modified, but not changed terms, is expressive of blackness."
First Footsteps in East Africa Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Jack Parker, Boston University's men's ice hockey coach, and Tom Galla, who managed Drury on the Trumbull Little League team, said Drury combined intuition and competitiveness in a manner they have rarely encountered.
Meet the Ghost of Playoffs Past Mike Sielski 2011
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Her mother, Galla, had died in childbirth ten years earlier, in 384.
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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Through the children of Placidia, who married Olybrius, the very short-lived Western emperor of 472, the blood of Galla Placidia continued to flow through the veins of the nobility in the Eastern empire.1
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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Though Galla Placidia was compelled to live a more cloistered life, a girl in her position was reared in much the same way as Julia, Livilla, and the girls of the Julio-Claudian household.
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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Once more I fell into a strange mood in the tomb of Galla Placidia; once more I was deeply stirred. . .
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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Cicero also implied an incestuous relationship between Clodia Metelli and her brother, a standard theme of Roman political invective that would also be leveled at Caligula and Drusilla; Nero and Agrippina Minor; Berenice and Agrippa II; Domitian and Julia Flavia, Julia Domna and Caracalla and Galla Placidia and Honorius.
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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In 416, six years after she was abducted from Rome, Galla Placidia was home again.50
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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Page 251: Galla Placidia and her children saved from the storm, manuscript illustration from the 14th century.
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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