different between alco vs albo

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

alco (plural alcos)

1. A small South American dog, domesticated by the natives.
   • 1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, pp. lxxviii-lxxix,^[1]

     […] the alco, a mute little dog, caressing and sequacious, once loved and cherished by its poor Indian masters, is like them exterminated.

Etymology 2

Shortening.

Noun

alco (plural alcos)

1. (slang, Britain, Australia) An alcoholic.

Anagrams

• Acol, COLA, Calo, Caló, Coal., LCAO, LOCA, coal, cola, loca

English

Etymology

Albanian +? -o

Noun

albo (plural albos)

1. (US, offensive, ethnic slur) An Albanian-American.

Anagrams

• Boal, bola

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?bo/

Noun

albó f (plural álob m)

1. blister

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?al.bo/
• Hyphenation: àl?bo
• Rhymes: -albo

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin album (“blank tablet”) (19th century). Doublet of album.

Noun

albo m (plural albi)

1. notice board, bulletin board
2. honours board
3. roll or register, especially of an organization or profession

Etymology 2

From Latin albus (“white”), possibly taken as a learned term (first attested 14th century), from Proto-Italic *al?os, from Proto-Indo-European *h?elb?ós.

Adjective

albo (feminine alba, masculine plural albi, feminine plural albe)

1. (literary) white

   Synonym: bianco

Related terms

See also

• alba

References

Latin

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From albus (“white”) +? -?.

Verb

alb? (present infinitive alb?re, perfect active alb?v?, supine alb?tum); first conjugation

1. (transitive) I make white, whiten.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (make white): albic?

Related terms

Etymology 2

Inflected form of albus (“white”).

Adjective

alb?

1. dative masculine singular of albus
2. dative neuter singular of albus
3. ablative masculine singular of albus
4. ablative neuter singular of albus

References

• albo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• albo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• albo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *alibo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?al.b?/

Conjunction

albo

1. or (especially exclusive or)

See also

• lub

Further reading

• albo in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• albo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin albus (“white”). Aside from some very early Old Spanish texts, it is only used as a Latinism, or in a poetic or literary sense (as with most other western Romance languages). Even in Old Spanish, this form was semi-learned or maintained a conservative pronunciation; the form obo was the popularly inherited one, completely transmitted in an oral fashion from Latin, but only remained as an element in some toponyms/placenames. However, some terms derived from or related to albo have survived in Spanish. Doublet of álbum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?albo/, [?al.??o]

Adjective

albo (feminine alba, masculine plural albos, feminine plural albas)

1. (poetic) white

   Synonym: blanco

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “albo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.