alb
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alb
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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”).
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alb (plural albs)
- (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, published 2014, page 131:
- ‘The confidence of the very rich,’ thought Father Carter watching Binkie shaking out albs and cottas and calling rather loudly to the organist.
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From Latin albus. Compare to Daco-Romanian alb.
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alb (feminine albe, masculine plural alghi, feminine plural albi)
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From Latin albus. Only used in poetic/literary contexts or found in some toponyms.
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alb (feminine alba, masculine plural albs, feminine plural albes)
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- “alb” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
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alb
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From Old High German alp, from Proto-West Germanic *albi, from Proto-Germanic *albiz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *albʰós.
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- Used through the 13th century.
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- Marshall Jones Company (1930). Mythology of All Races Series, Volume 2 Eddic, Great Britain: Marshall Jones Company, 1930, pp. 220.
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Inherited from Latin albus, from Proto-Italic *alβos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élbʰos, *álbʰos, *albʰós (“white”). Doublet of album.
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alb m or n (feminine singular albă, masculine plural albi, feminine and neuter plural albe)
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alb m (plural albi)
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alb | gri | negru |
roșu; carmin | portocaliu; maro | galben; crem |
verde | verde mentă | |
cyan | bleu | albastru |
violet; indigo | mov; purpură | roz |
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alb m (feminine singular alba, masculine plural albs, feminine plural albas)