Dictionary

galea en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin galea.

Meanings

1. A Roman helmet.
   • The horse was not in the least like a Greek horse (nor even a Trojan), and F.M. the Duke of Wellington was not represented with the ensis or short sword in his grasp, the chlamys flying from his shoulder, or the paludamentum, as more suitable for the cool of the English climate (totidem divisos orbe &c.), the kothornos on his leg, the galea slung at the crupper? no reins, and his naked nether-man, not (as in these precious models) seated on the bare back of the bull-necked, square-jawed, dray-limbed steed. 1847, “The Wellington Statue”, in The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c., London, page 523, column 2:
2. A part of a flower or plant that is shaped like a helmet or hood.
3. A mouthpart found in some species of insect; a flap that is part of the maxilla, so-called after the flaps attached to the sides of a Roman helmet.
4. A kind of bandage for the head.
5. A headache extending all over the head.

Forms

Deriveds

galeiform · galeate · galeated

Translations (3)

ca gàlea (Roman helmet) · es gálea (Roman helmet) · pl galea (Roman helmet)