galba

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Gaulish, of unknown origin; perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *golbʰo- (“womb; animal young”), but with phonetic issues. If so, cognate with English calf.

Noun

galba f (genitive galbae); first declension

1. a kind of little worm or larva (animal)
2. (Gaul) a stout, fat human
3. a nickname for the people of Sulpicia

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	galba	galbae
Genitive	galbae	galbārum
Dative	galbae	galbīs
Accusative	galbam	galbās
Ablative	galbā	galbīs
Vocative	galba	galbae

Derived terms

• Galba
• Galbanus

 

Descendants

• Galician: galbán

References

• “galba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• galba in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• galba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “galba”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “galba”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray