galba

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Gaulish, of unknown origin; perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *golbʰo- (“womb; animal young”),[1] 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

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
  1. Pokorny, Julius (1959) “geleb(h)-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 358-359
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