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alba

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See also: Alba, Albà, and albă

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

First attested in 1821; borrowed from Occitan alba, ultimately from Latin albus (“white”); compare Spanish alba (“dawn”).

Noun

alba (plural albas)

  1. (poetry) A type of lyrical poetry, traditionally Provençal, about lovers who must part at dawn.
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Further reading

Etymology 2

First attested in 1848; borrowed from Latin alba (the feminine form of albus (“white”)) in the now-disused species name of binomial nomenclature Rosa alba (it is now considered a hybrid and is accordingly called Rosa × alba).

Noun

alba (plural albas)

  1. A white-flowered shrub rose of the hybrid Rosa × alba.
  2. A flower of the hybrid Rosa × alba.
Derived terms

Further reading

Etymology 3

First attested in 1859; borrowed from Latin alba, the nominative plural form of album (“blank tablet”), whence the English album.

Noun

alba pl

  1. (rare) plural of album

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin alba (“alb”), from Latin alba (as in tunica alba (“white tunic”), vestis alba (“white garment”)), feminine of albus (“white”). Doublet of alb.

Noun

alba (plural albas)

  1. Synonym of alb.
    • 1857, Isaac F[arwell] Holton, “Montserrate and the Boqueron”, in New Granada: Twenty Months in the Andes, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, page 217:
      On a little plot of grass near the kitchen the family were spreading out a large supply of priestly vestments—albas, casullas, capas pluviales, ornamentos, parmentos, cíngulas, estolas, frontales, etc., etc., etc.
    • 1932, Theodore Komisarjevsky, The Costume of the Theatre, page 56:
      Christ, whom they meet, must wear an alba and an amictus, be barefooted, and carry a cross on the left shoulder.
    • 1979, Yearbook, Board of Publication of the Lutheran Church in America, page 494:
      Traditional styles such as cassocks and cottas, or contemporary trends in robes and collars, choir albas, skirts, caps and acolyte vestments.
    • 2000, Ivo Hlobil, Ladislav Daniel, editors, The Last Flowers of the Middle Ages: From the Gothic to the Renaissance in Moravia and Silesia, →ISBN, page 304:
      Another canon with a biretta in his hand, wearing an alba and an upper fur mucia, is kneeling to the left of the Crucifix;

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Asturian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *alba, from Latin albus (“white”).

Noun

alba f (plural albes)

  1. dawn

Synonyms

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *alba, from Latin albus (“white”).

Noun

alba f (plural albes)

  1. dawn
  2. (Catholicism, liturgy) the white tunic worn by priests
Alternative forms

Etymology 2

Noun

alba f (plural albes)

  1. alternative form of àlber (“white poplar”)

Further reading

  • “alba” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
  • “alba”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
  • “alba” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Chickasaw

Pronunciation

Noun

alba (alienable)

  1. a weed
  2. an uncultivated plant

Inflection

Class III Noun Possession (Alienable)
More information Nouns in vowel-, b-, or p-, Singular ...

Derived terms

  • alba balalli'
  • alba haloppa'
  • alba homi'
  • alba ishpiya'
  • alba lakna'
  • alba lowak
  • alba paka̱li'
  • alba pishokchi'
  • alba tonolli'
  • albimpishokchi'
  • albokchi'
  • alboppolo'
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Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

alba

  1. inflection of album:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Finnish

Etymology

From Latin alba.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑlbɑ/, [ˈɑ̝lbɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -ɑlbɑ
  • Syllabification(key): al‧ba
  • Hyphenation(key): al‧ba

Noun

alba

  1. An alb; a long white gown worn in various Christian ceremonies by the priest or the parishioners, especially in a confirmation by the people who are being confirmed

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...
More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...

Further reading

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Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese alva (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *alba, the feminine of albus (“white”). Cognate with Portuguese alva.

Pronunciation

Noun

alba f (plural albas)

  1. dawn
    Synonyms: alborada, abrente

References

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Icelandic

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Noun

alba f (genitive singular ölbu, nominative plural ölbur)

  1. alb (priestly robe)

Declension

More information singular, plural ...
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Indonesian

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin alba (as in tunica alba (“white tunic”), vestis alba (“white garment”)), feminine of albus (“white”).

Pronunciation

Noun

alba (plural alba-alba)

  1. (Catholicism) alb: a long, white robe worn by priests and other ministers, underneath most of the other vestments.

Further reading

Istriot

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *alba, from Latin albus (“white”).

Noun

alba f

  1. dawn

Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *alba, from Latin albus (“white”). Compare French aube.

Pronunciation

Noun

alba f (plural albe)

  1. dawn, daybreak, break of day
    Synonym: aurora
  2. sunrise
    Synonyms: aurora, levar del sole

Derived terms

See also

times of day: parti del giornoedit

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Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From albus (“white”).

Noun

alba f (genitive albae); first declension

  1. a white precious stone, the pearl
  2. (VL.) dawn
Declension

First-declension noun.

More information singular, plural ...

References

  • “alba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • "alba", 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)
  • “alba”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “alba”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

alba

  1. inflection of albus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

albā

  1. ablative feminine singular of albus

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin alba (“white”).

Noun

alba m (definite singular albaen, indefinite plural albaer, definite plural albaene)

  1. (Christianity) alb

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin alba (“white”).

Noun

alba m (definite singular albaen, indefinite plural albaar or albaer, definite plural albaane or albaene)

  1. (Christianity) alb

References

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *albijā, from Proto-Celtic *albiyū (“(upper) world; high mountain; alpine pasture”), from Proto-Indo-European *albʰós (“white”).

Noun

alba f

  1. alpine pasture
  2. alp

Polish

Portuguese

Romanian

Sicilian

Sidamo

Spanish

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