galba Copy link Outline I. A small worm, the ash-borer, or the larva of the ash-spinner ...II. In the Gallic, i. q. praepinguis, fat paunch ...III. As a prop. nameA. Name of a chief of the Suessiones, ...B. A surname in the gens Sulpicia, Suet. ... • 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.