galba

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Gaulish, probably from Proto-Indo-European *golbʰo- (“womb, animal young”)[1]. 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

Inflection

First declension.

Case 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, 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 Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  1. Pokorny, Julius (1959), “geleb(h)-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume II, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 358-359
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