galbus

== Latin == === Etymology === Unknown, attested only in remote loci, which begin with the Imperial era, so suggested as a borrowing, but there is no similar enough etymon. Perhaps back-formed from galbinus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɡaɫ.bʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɡal.bus] === Adjective === galbus (feminine galba, neuter galbum); first/second-declension adjective (rare) yellow, chartreuse ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== galbulus ==== Descendants ==== Balkano-Romance: Istro-Romanian: gåbu ⇒ Late Latin: galbulus, galbula (avis) Italian: galbero, gravolo, graolo, gaulo, golo, gobolo (Lucca), → galbula Neapolitan: gravulu (Calabrian) Romagnol: gravolo ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *aurigalbulus Italian: rigogolo (merged with "galgulus"), regabio (Emilian) ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *grabulus (metathesis and dissimilation) Italian: grallo === See also === === References === “galbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “galbus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Ernout, Alfred; Meillet, Antoine (1985), “galbus”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 266