galba

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Gaulish, probably from Proto-Indo-European *golbʰo- (“womb, animal young”). If so, cognate with English calf

Noun

galba f (genitive galbae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	galba	galbae
genitive	galbae	galbārum
dative	galbae	galbīs
accusative	galbam	galbās
ablative	galbā	galbīs
vocative	galba	galbae

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