The corpus record — Latin

Galba

Galba · f

A small worm

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Where it lives

Otho 7 · 44.39/10k
Galba 11 · 39.88/10k
Ausonii de XII Caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis 3 · 35.29/10k
Historiae 132 · 25.65/10k
Cato 1 · 23.36/10k
Vitellius 5 · 20.77/10k
Divus Vespasianus 4 · 12.5/10k
Brutus 21 · 8.37/10k
Nero 6 · 7.68/10k
Divus Titus 1 · 6.72/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklürt von M. Weissenborn, book 45 8 · 6.07/10k
Avidius Cassius 1 · 3.83/10k

Densest 12 of 55 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. galba — Lewis & Short

galba, ae, f.Gallic, perh. kindr. with the Germ. gelb (yellow) or Kalb (calf).

I A small worm, the ash-borer, or the larva of the ash-spinner, Bombyx aesculi, Linn. acc. to Suet. Galb. 3.—

II In the Gallic, i. q. praepinguis, fat paunch, big belly, acc. to Suet. Galb. 3.—

III As a prop. name: Galba, ae, m.

A Name of a chief of the Suessiones, Caes. B. G. 2, 4, 7; 2, 13, 1.—

B A surname in the gens Sulpicia, Suet. Galb. 3.—So, Ser. Sulpicius Galba, consul in 610; v. Sulpicius; and the emperor of the same name, Suet. Galb.; Juv. 8, 5; 222.

2. galba — Walde–Hofmann

galba, -ae m. ,Schmerbauch", Beiname der gäns Sulpiciórum, nach Suet, Galba 3, 1 gallische Bezeichnung für *praepinguis (ibid. auch „Larve des Eschenbohrers^, in welcher Bed. kaum nach Walde "Thes. zw. zu galbus von der Farbe; auch galbulus, -1 m. ,Zypressenzapfen^ Varro wohl eher nach Persson Beitr, 64 hierher als zu galbus, Walde Thes, da die synonymen Bezeichnungen pilulae, sphaerulae ebenso wie die Beschreibung … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. galba, p. 609]

In the wild

6 of 336 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. galba (scan p. 289; entry #4522).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. galba (scan pp. 609-612; entry #1205). Root candidates: *golbh-, *gelbhes-, *globh-.

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