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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
- a kind of little worm or larva (animal)
- (Gaul) a stout, fat human
- a nickname for the people of Sulpicia
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
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