Asturian

Proper noun

Alba f

1. Short for Alba de Tormes.
   • Ana Isabel Fernández Rodríguez et al., El pueblu quirosán: una unidá social in 1991, Cultures: revista asturiana de cultura, volume 1, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, page 79:

     Les que más poder de convocatoria tienen son les romeríes de dellos centros devocionales (Alba, Trobanieḷḷu), qu’ atraen a xente de tol conceyu y d’otros conceyos vecinos (Ḷḷena, Riosa, Teberga...).

     Those which have the greatest summoning power are the religious festivals of various devotional centres (Alba, Trobanieḷḷu), which attract people from the entire municipality and from other neighbouring municipalities (Ḷḷena, Riosa, Teberga...).

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈalˠəbˠə/

Proper noun

Alba f ‎(genitive Alban)

1. Archaic form of Albain.

Declension

The definite article is used only in the genitive.

Mutation

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.ba/, [ˈaɫ.ba]

Proper noun

Alba m ‎(genitive Albae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) Alternative form of Albis
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Flavius Vopiscus to this entry?)

Declension

First declension, with locative.

References

• Alba in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Alba”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish Albu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɫ̪apə/

Proper noun

Alba f

1. Scotland

   Tha Loch Laomainn ann an Alba. - Loch Lomond is in Scotland.

Usage notes

• Used with the definite article in the genitive case:

  aibhnichean na h-Alba - Scotland's rivers

Derived terms

• BPA
• Eaglais na h-Alba

Mutation

Spanish

Proper noun

Alba f

1. A female given name of modern usage from alba ‎(“dawn”).
2. A habitational surname​ from place names of obscure origin.

English

Noun

alba ‎(plural albas)

1. A type of lyrical poetry, traditionally Provençal, about lovers who must part at dawn.

External links

• Alba (poetry) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

First attested in 1848; from the Latin alba (the feminine form of albus, “white”) in the now-disused species name of binomial nomenclature Rosa alba (it is now considered a hybrid and is accordingly called Rosa × alba).

Noun

alba ‎(plural albas)

1. A white-flowered shrub rose of the hybrid Rosa × alba.
2. A flower of the hybrid Rosa × alba.

External links

• List of Rosa species on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 3

First attested in 1859; from the Latin alba, the nominative plural form of album ‎(“blank tablet”), whence the English album.

Noun

alba pl

1. plural of album
   • For usage examples of this term, see Citations:alba.

Anagrams

• Ba'al, Baal, LABA

Asturian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin alba, from Latin albus ‎(“white”).

Noun

alba f ‎(plural albes)

1. dawn

Synonyms

• amanecer

Catalan

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin alba, from Latin albus ‎(“white”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɫbə/

Noun

alba f ‎(plural albes)

1. dawn
2. the white tunic worn by priests

Chickasaw

Noun

alba

1. a weed
2. an uncultivated plant

Finnish

Noun

alba

1. An alb; a long white gown worn in various Christian ceremonies by the priest or the parishioners, especially in a confirmation by the people who are being confirmed

Declension

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈalpa/
• Homophone: Alba

Noun

alba f ‎(genitive singular ölbu, nominative plural ölbur)

1. alb (priestly robe)

Declension

Istriot

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin alba, from Latin albus ‎(“white”).

Noun

alba f

1. dawn

Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin alba, from Latin albus ‎(“white”). Compare French aube.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈalba/
• Hyphenation: àl‧ba

Noun

alba f ‎(plural albe)

1. dawn, daybreak, break of day

Derived terms

• albeggiare

See also

• aurora
• levar del sole
• (times of day) parte del giorno; aurora,‎ alba,‎ mattino/‎mattina,‎ mezzogiorno,‎ pomeriggio,‎ tramonto,‎ crepuscolo,‎ sera,‎ notte,‎ mezzanotte ^{(Category: it:Time) [edit]}

Anagrams

• Baal

Latin

Etymology

From albus ‎(“white”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.ba/, [ˈaɫ.ba]

Pronunciation 1

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.ba/

Noun

alba f ‎(genitive albae); first declension

1. a white precious stone, the pearl
2. vocative singular of alba

Declension

First declension.

References

• alba in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ALBA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “alba”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• alba in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Adjective

alba

1. nominative feminine singular of albus
2. nominative neuter plural of albus
3. accusative neuter plural of albus
4. vocative feminine singular of albus
5. vocative neuter plural of albus

Pronunciation 2

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.baː/

Adjective

albā

1. ablative feminine singular of albus

Noun

albā

1. ablative singular of alba

Old High German

Etymology

From a Proto-Indo-European *alb- ‎(“mountain”)

Noun

alba f

1. alpine pasture
2. alp

Polish

Pronunciation

Noun

alba f

1. alb (long white robe worn by ministers at religious ceremonies)

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin albus ‎(“white”).

Adjective

alba ‎(plural albas, comparable)

1. white

Derived terms

• albino

Romanian

Etymology

Definite form of albă, from Latin alba, feminine of albus. For the sense of "dawn" or "sunrise", see Vulgar Latin alba, whence also Italian and Spanish alba, French aube, Portuguese alva.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.ba/

Adjective

alba

1. definite feminine singular nominative of alb
2. definite feminine singular accusative of alb

Noun

alba f ‎(plural albe)

1. (popular) dawn, daybreak, sunrise

Synonyms

• zori, auroră, răsărit

Spanish

Adjective

alba f sg

1. feminine singular of albo

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin alba, from Latin albus.

Noun

alba f ‎(plural albas)

1. dawn

Synonyms

• amanecer

Usage notes

• The feminine noun alba is like other feminine nouns starting with a stressed a sound in that it takes the definite article el (normally reserved for masculine nouns) in the singular when there is no intervening adjective:

el alba

• However, if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun, the article reverts to la.