different between alb vs soutane

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

Borrowed from French soutane, from Italian sottana, from Latin subtana, from subtus (“below, beneath”), from sub (“under”).

Noun

soutane (plural soutanes)

1. (Christian clerical dress) A long gown with sleeves and buttons at the front
   • 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, page 21

     Then at the door of the castle the rector had shaken hands with his father and mother, his soutane fluttering in the breeze, and the car had driven off with his father and mother on it.

Translations

Further reading

• soutane on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French soutane.

Pronunciation

Noun

soutane f (plural soutanes)

1. (Southern, Roman Catholicism) cassock

Synonyms

• toga
• toog

Finnish

Verb

soutane

1. Indicative connegative potential form of soutaa.

Anagrams

• soentua, soutaen, suotaen

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su.tan/

Noun

soutane f (plural soutanes)

1. cassock
2. soutane

Descendants

• ? Dutch: soutane
• ? English: soutane

Further reading

• “soutane” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• nouâtes