Galatian
/ɡəˈleɪ.ʃən/adjective, noun
Galatian is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to Galatia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-A-L-A-T-I-A-N, and it appears about once in every 27 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does Galatian mean?
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to Galatia.
noun
- 1
A person from Galatia.
- 2
A member of an ancient Celtic tribe from Galatia (now part of Turkey).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce Galatian?
- /ɡəˈleɪ.ʃən/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Galatian.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of Galatian
- more Galatian comparative
- most Galatian superlative
- Galatians plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Galatian?
Galatian appears about once in every 27 million words in written English, the 157,761st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Galatian in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does Galatian come from?
From Galatia + -an.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).