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Alba

See also: alba, Albà, and albă

English edit

 
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Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑlbə/, /ˈælbə/

Etymology 1 edit

From Romanian Alba.

Proper noun edit

Alba

  1. A county of Transylvania, Romania.
Related terms edit
Translations edit
 
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Etymology 2 edit

From Scottish Gaelic Alba, ultimately from the same origin as Etymology 1. Related to albino, Albania and Elbe. More at Albany.

Proper noun edit

Alba

  1. (historical, poetic or rare) Scotland, especially referring to the Kingdom of Alba, Scotland, between 900 and 1286.
Derived terms edit

Etymology 3 edit

From Spanish Alba, ultimately from the same origin as Etymology 1 and 2.

Proper noun edit

Alba

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

Anagrams edit

Asturian edit

Proper noun edit

Alba f

  1. Clipping of 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...).

Catalan edit

Pronunciation edit

Proper noun edit

Alba f

  1. Alba (any of various places)

Irish edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old Irish Albu, from Proto-Celtic *albiyū.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈal̪ˠəbˠə/, /ˈalˠəbˠə/

Proper noun edit

Alba f (genitive Alban)

  1. (dated) Scotland (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)
    Synonym: Albain

Declension edit

Declension of Alba

Fifth declension

Bare forms (no plural for this noun):

Case Singular
Nominative Alba
Vocative a Alba
Genitive Alban
Dative Albain

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an Alba
Genitive na hAlban
Dative leis an Albain

don Albain

  • The definite article is used only in the genitive.

Derived terms edit

Mutation edit

Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
Alba nAlba hAlba not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading edit

Italian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈal.ba/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -alba
  • Hyphenation: Àl‧ba

Proper noun edit

Alba ?

  1. Synonym of Scozia

Derived terms edit

Anagrams edit

Latin edit

Pronunciation edit

Proper noun edit

Alba m sg (genitive Albae); first declension

  1. (Late Latin) Alternative form of Albis
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Flavius Vopiscus to this entry?)
  2. The name of a mythical pre-Roman king, Alba Silvius

Declension edit

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Alba
Genitive Albae
Dative Albae
Accusative Albam
Ablative Albā
Vocative Alba
Locative Albae

References edit

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

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

From alba, definite feminine form of alb.

Pronunciation edit

Proper noun edit

Alba f

  1. A county of Romania.
  2. A village in Hudești, Botoșani, Romania
  3. A village in Izvoarele, Tulcea, Romania

Declension edit

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declension of Alba (singular only)
singular
f gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (o) Alba Albaua
genitive/dative (unei) Albale Albalei
vocative Alba

See also edit

Scottish Gaelic edit

Etymology edit

From Old Irish Albu.

Pronunciation edit

Proper noun edit

Alba f (genitive na h-Alba)

  1. Scotland (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)
    Tha Loch Laomainn ann an Albainn.[1]
    Loch Lomond is in Scotland.

Usage notes edit

Declension edit

Declension of Alba (type Vc feminine noun)
Indefinite
Singular
Nominative Alba
Genitive Alba; Albann (archaic)
Dative Alba; Albainn (archaic)
Definite
Singular
Nominative (an) Alba
Genitive (na) h-Alba; h-Albann (archaic)
Dative (an) Alba; Albainn (archaic)
Vocative (a) Alba

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • → English: Alba

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ http://www.taic.me.uk/faclmain.htm

Mutation edit

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
Alba n-Alba h-Alba t-Alba
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Spanish edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈalba/ [ˈal.β̞a]
  • Rhymes: -alba
  • Syllabification: Al‧ba

Proper noun edit

Alba f

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

Tagalog edit

Etymology edit

From Spanish.

Pronunciation edit

Proper noun edit

Alba (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎ᜔ᜊ)

  1. a surname from Spanish

Statistics edit

  • According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Alba is the 277th most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 27,607 individuals.
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