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Webster 1913 Edition


Alban

Al′ban

,
Noun.
[L.
albus
white.]
(Chem.)
A white crystalline resinous substance extracted from gutta-percha by the action of alcohol or ether.

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Alban

Alban

See also: alban and albán

English

Proper noun

Alban

  1. A male given name.

Usage notes

  • Though borne by the first British martyr, the given name has always been rare in English.

Translations

Adjective

Alban (not comparable)

  1. (historical) Pertaining to the ancient Latin city of Alba Longa.
    • 1847, Leonhard Schmitz, A History of Rome: From the Earliest Times to the Death of Commodus, A.D. 192, Harper & brothers, page 14:
      But beside this, there existed at Lavinium another tradition, which inverts the order of things by stating that Lavinium was an Alban colony, founded by six hundred Alban families.
    • 1922, Sir James George Frazer, AThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, Forgotten Books, page 152:
      Now the Alban dynasti bore the name of Silvii or Wood, and it can hardly be without significance that in the vision of the historic glories of Rome revealed to Aeneas in the underworld, Virgil, an antiquary as well as a poet, should represent all the line of Silvii as crowned with oak.
    • 1998, Robert Alan Gurval, Actium and Augustus: The Politics and Emotions of Civil War, University of Michigan Press, page 223:
      Reminded of the Alban king’s descent from Silvius, the son of Aeneas, Vergil’s reader must judge the crime of Mettus and his gruesome punishment with greater horror and revulsion.
  2. (historical) Pertaining to Alba, or the area now covered by Scotland.
    • 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin 2012, p. 66:
      At some point during the Picto-Gaelic fusion, St Andrew was adopted as patron of the Alban kingdom.

Anagrams


Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

A variant of Arban, with regular r-l change.

Proper noun

Alban

  1. A male given name, cognate to English Alban.
Related terms

French

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Alban

  1. A male given name, cognate to English Alban.

Related terms

Anagrams


Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaləbˠənˠ/
  • IPA(key): /nə ˈhaləbˠənˠ/ (full form na hAlban)

Proper noun

na hAlban f

  1. genitive of Albain

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
Alban nAlban hAlban tAlban
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Irish

Proper noun

Alban f

  1. genitive singular of Albu

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
Alban unchanged nAlban
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Swedish

Proper noun

Alban

  1. Alban, A male given name

Welsh

Proper noun

Yr Alban f

  1. Scotland

alban

alban

See also: Alban and albán

English

Noun

alban (uncountable)

  1. (chemistry, obsolete) A white crystalline resinous substance extracted from gutta-percha by the action of alcohol or ether.


Finnish

Noun

alban

  1. Genitive singular form of alba.

Swedish

Noun

alban c

  1. Albanian; person, chiefly male, from Albania.

Declension

Inflection of alban 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative alban albanen albaner albanerna
Genitive albans albanens albaners albanernas

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