different between alb vs albe

English

Alternative forms

• albe, aube (both obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English aube, awbe, albe, abbe, from Late Old English albe (but later reinforced by Old French aube, Medieval Latin alba), borrowed from Latin alba (as in tunica alba (“white tunic”), vestis alba (“white garment”)), feminine of albus (“white”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ælb/
• (UK, also) IPA^(key): /alb/

Noun

alb (plural albs)

1. (Christianity, chiefly Anglicanism, Roman Catholicism) A long, white robe worn by priests and other ministers, underneath most of the other vestments.
   • 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus 2014, p. 131:

     ‘The confidence of the very rich,’ thought Father Carter watching Binkie shaking out albs and cottas and calling rather loudly to the organist.

Related terms

• album
• albumin
• albus
• Albion

Translations

See also

• epigonation
• epimanikion
• epitrachelion
• maniple
• omophorion
• rhason
• sakkos
• sticharion
• zone

Anagrams

• BAL, BLA, LAB, Lab, Lab., abl., lab

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• albu

Etymology

From Latin albus. Compare to Daco-Romanian alb.

Adjective

alb (feminine albe, masculine plural alghi, feminine plural albi)

1. white
2. (figuratively) clean

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin albus. Only used in poetic/literary contexts or found in some toponyms.

Adjective

alb (feminine alba, masculine plural albs, feminine plural albes)

1. (poetic) white

Synonyms

• blanc

Related terms

• alba
• eixalbar

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?alp]

Noun

alb

1. genitive plural of album

Middle High German

Alternative forms

• alp

Etymology

From Old High German alp, from Proto-West Germanic *albi, from Proto-Germanic *albiz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *alb?ós.

Noun

alb m (plural elbe or elber)

1. elf
2. friendly spirit, ghostly being, genius, or fairy

Usage notes

• Used through the 13th century.

Descendants

• German: Alb, Albdruck, Albtraum.

References

• Marshall Jones Company (1930). Mythology of All Races Series, Volume 2 Eddic, Great Britain: Marshall Jones Company, 1930, pp. 220.

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin albus, from Proto-Italic *al?os, from Proto-Indo-European *h?élb?os, *álb?os, *alb?ós (“white”). Doublet of album.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /alb/

Adjective

alb m or n (feminine singular alb?, masculine plural albi, feminine and neuter plural albe)

1. white
2. (figuratively) clean, pure, immaculate

Declension

Antonyms

• negru

Derived terms

• alba
• albicios
• albu?
• albu?

Related terms

• albi
• albea??
• albastru

Noun

alb m (plural albi)

1. the color white
2. white person

See also

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter) alv

Etymology

From Latin albus.

Adjective

alb m (feminine singular alba, masculine plural albs, feminine plural albas)

1. (Vallader) white

Antonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) nair
• (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) ner
• (Surmiran) neir

English

Etymology 1

From all +? be (it). More at albeit.

Conjunction

albe

1. (obsolete) Synonym of albeit

Etymology 2

Noun

albe (plural albes)

1. Obsolete spelling of alb

Anagrams

• -able, Abel, Able, Bale, Beal, Blea, Ebla, Elba, able, bael, bale, beal, blea

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch albe, from Latin alba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l.b?/
• Hyphenation: al?be
• Rhymes: -?lb?

Noun

albe f (plural alben)

1. (Roman Catholicism) alb

Friulian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin alba, from Latin albus. Compare Italian alba.

Noun

albe f (plural albis)

1. dawn

Italian

Noun

albe f

1. plural of alba

Anagrams

• bela

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?al.be/, [?ä??b?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?al.be/, [??lb?]

Adjective

albe

1. vocative masculine singular of albus

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin alba, from Latin albus.

Noun

albe f (oblique plural albes, nominative singular albe, nominative plural albes)

1. dawn (sunrise; start of the day)

Descendants

• French: aube

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?al.be/

Adjective

albe

1. nominative feminine plural of alb
2. accusative feminine plural of alb
3. nominative neuter plural of alb
4. accusative neuter plural of alb