See also: alba, Albà, and albă

English

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɑlbə/, /ˈælbə/

Etymology 1

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From Romanian Alba.

Proper noun

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Alba

  1. A county of Transylvania, Romania.
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Etymology 2

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

Proper noun

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Alba

  1. (historical, poetic or rare) Scotland, especially referring to the Kingdom of Alba, Scotland, between 900 and 1286.
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Etymology 3

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

Proper noun

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Alba

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

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Asturian

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Proper noun

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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

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Alba f

  1. Alba (any of various places)

Irish

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Alternative forms

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  • Albain (originally the dative, now also common in the nominative)

Etymology

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From Old Irish Albu,[1] from Proto-Celtic *albiyū.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈal̪ˠəbˠə/, /ˈalˠəbˠə/[2]

Proper noun

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Alba f (genitive Alban)

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

Declension

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Declension of Alba (fifth declension, no plural)
bare forms
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

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of Alba
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
Alba nAlba hAlba not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “Albu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 215, page 81

Further reading

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

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Alba ?

  1. Synonym of Scozia

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Latin

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Pronunciation

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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

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First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

References

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  • 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

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Etymology

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From alba, definite feminine form of alb.

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Alba f

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

Declension

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singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative Alba Albaua
genitive-dative Albale Albalei
vocative Alba

See also

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish Albu. Compare with English Albion.

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Proper noun

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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

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Declension

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Descendants

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  • English: Alba

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Mutation

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Mutation of Alba
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
Alba n-Alba h-Alba t-Alba

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

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Alba f

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

Tagalog

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish.

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Alba (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎ᜔ᜊ)

  1. a surname from Spanish

Statistics

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  • 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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