different between albus vs alb

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *al?os, from Proto-Indo-European *h?elb?ós.

Cognates include Umbrian ???????????????? (alfu), Ancient Greek ????? (alphós, “whiteness, white leprosy”), Hittite ???????????? (alpas, “cloud”), Middle Welsh elbid (“world”), English elf, and Russian ??????? (lébed?, “swan”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?al.bus/, [?ä??b?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?al.bus/, [??lbus]

Adjective

albus (feminine alba, neuter album, comparative albior, superlative albissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. white (properly without luster), dull white
   • p. 830, Nennius, Historia Brittonum, II: 42

     duo vermes in eo sunt, unus albus et unus rufus

     "There are," said he, "two serpents, one white and the other red […] "

2. clear, bright
3. pale, fair, gray, hoary
   • p. 1250, Thomas Aquinas, De ente et essentia

     […] et sic de ipsa aliquid praedicatur per accidens ratione eius, in quo est, sicut dicitur quod homo est albus, quia Socrates est albus, quamvis hoc non conveniat homini in eo quod homo.

     And thus something is accidentally asserted, that is, we say that man is white because Socrates is white, although this does not come about for men because [Socrates] is a man.

4. (figuratively) favorable, fortunate, auspicious, propitious

Usage notes

Latin albus is used primarily to mean "white" that is dull or matte. The word candidus is used primarily for shining whiteness. However, this distinction is not always followed.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Synonyms

• (white): albidus, *blancus (Late Latin, Vulgar Latin), candidus, lacteolus
• (clear, bright): limpidus
• (pale, gray): c?nus
• (favorable): bonus, favor?bilis

Antonyms

• (dull white): ?ter

Derived terms

Descendants

See also

References

• albus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• albus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• albus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• albus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• albus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

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