alba

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ălʹbə, IPA^(key): /ˈæl.bə/

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First attested in 1821; borrowed from Occitan alba, ultimately from Latin albus (“white”); compare Spanish alba (“dawn”).

alba (plural albas)

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

•   Alba (poetry) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

First attested in 1848; borrowed from 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).

alba (plural albas)

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

•   List of Rosa species on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

alba pl

1. (rare) plural of album
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:alba.

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin alba (“alb”), from Latin alba (as in tunica alba (“white tunic”), vestis alba (“white garment”)), feminine of albus (“white”). Doublet of alb.

alba (plural albas)

1. Synonym of alb
   • 1857, Isaac F[arwell] Holton, “Montserrate and the Boqueron”, in New Granada: Twenty Months in the Andes, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, page 217:

     On a little plot of grass near the kitchen the family were spreading out a large supply of priestly vestments—albas, casullas, capas pluviales, ornamentos, parmentos, cíngulas, estolas, frontales, etc., etc., etc.

   • 1932, Theodore Komisarjevsky, The Costume of the Theatre, page 56:

     Christ, whom they meet, must wear an alba and an amictus, be barefooted, and carry a cross on the left shoulder.

   • 1979, Yearbook, Board of Publication of the Lutheran Church in America, page 494:

     Traditional styles such as cassocks and cottas, or contemporary trends in robes and collars, choir albas, skirts, caps and acolyte vestments.

   • 2000, Ivo Hlobil, Ladislav Daniel, editors, The Last Flowers of the Middle Ages: From the Gothic to the Renaissance in Moravia and Silesia, →ISBN, page 304:

     Another canon with a biretta in his hand, wearing an alba and an upper fur mucia, is kneeling to the left of the Crucifix;

• AABL, Ba'al, Baal, Bala, Baʿal, LABA, baal, blaa, laab

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

alba f (plural albes)

1. dawn

• amanecer

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈal.βə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈal.bə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈal.ba]

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

alba f (plural albes)

1. dawn
2. (Catholicism, liturgy) the white tunic worn by priests

• auba

alba f (plural albes)

1. Alternative form of àlber (“white poplar”)

• “alba” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “alba”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “alba” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /alˈba/

alba (alienable)

1. a weed
2. an uncultivated plant

• IPA^(key): [ˈalba]
• Rhymes: -alba

alba

1. inflection of album:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

From Latin alba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑlbɑ/, [ˈɑ̝lbɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑlbɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): al‧ba

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

• “alba”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• alva (reintegrationist)

From Old Galician-Portuguese alva (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *alba, the feminine of albus (“white”). Cognate with Portuguese alva.

• IPA^(key): [ˈalβɐ]

alba f (plural albas)

1. dawn

   Synonyms: alborada, abrente

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “alva”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “alba”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “alba”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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

alba f (genitive singular ölbu, nominative plural ölbur)

1. alb (priestly robe)

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

alba f

1. dawn

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.ba/
• Rhymes: -alba
• Hyphenation: àl‧ba

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alba f (plural albe)

1. dawn, daybreak, break of day

   Synonym: aurora

   • 1926, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Adami, Renato Simoni (lyrics and music), “Nessun dorma”, in Turandot:

     Dilegua, o notte! Tramontate, stelle! Tramontate, stelle! All'alba, vincerò! Vincerò! Vincerò!

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. sunrise

   Synonyms: aurora, levar del sole

   • 2017, Baby K (lyrics and music), “Voglio ballare con te”, performed by Andrés Ceballos:

     Voglio vedere le luci dell’alba cambiare colore

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• albeggiare
• albino

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

• Baal

• alba: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈal.ba/, [ˈäɫ̪bä]
• alba: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.ba/, [ˈälbä]
• albā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈal.baː/, [ˈäɫ̪bäː]
• albā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.ba/, [ˈälbä]

From albus (“white”).

alba f (genitive albae); first declension

1. a white precious stone, the pearl
2. (VL.) dawn

First-declension noun.

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• alba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “alba”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

alba

1. inflection of albus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

albā

1. ablative feminine singular of albus

From Latin alba (“white”).

alba m (definite singular albaen, indefinite plural albaer, definite plural albaene)

1. (Christianity) alb

• “alba” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “alba” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From Latin alba (“white”).

alba m (definite singular albaen, indefinite plural albaar or albaer, definite plural albaane or albaene)

1. (Christianity) alb

• “alba” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-West Germanic *albijā, from Proto-Celtic *albiyū (“(upper) world; high mountain; alpine pasture”), from Proto-Indo-European *albʰós (“white”).

alba f

1. alpine pasture
2. alp

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.ba/

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• Rhymes: -alba
• Syllabification: al‧ba
• Homophone: Alba

Learned borrowing from Latin alba.^[1] First attested in 1528.^[2]

alba f

1. (Anglicanism, Lutheranism, Roman Catholicism) alb (long white robe worn by ministers at religious ceremonies)

   Coordinate term: komża

   białe alby ― white albs

Borrowed from Occitan alba.^[1] First attested in the 20th century.^[3]

alba f

1. (historical, poetry) alba (genre of Old Occitan lyric poetry)

Borrowed from German Halbe. First attested in the 17th century.^[4]

alba f

1. Middle Polish form of halba

• alba in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• alba in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “alba”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “alba”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “alba”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 22

Borrowed from Latin albus (“white”).

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -albɐ, (Brazil) -awbɐ
• Hyphenation: al‧ba

alba f (plural albas)

1. dawn, daybreak

   Synonyms: alva, aurora

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.ba/

alba

1. definite feminine singular nominative/accusative of alb

alba f (plural albe)

1. (popular) dawn, daybreak, sunrise

   Synonyms: zori, auroră, răsărit

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

alba f

1. dawn

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Gedeo አልበ (alba).

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

alba m 

1. face
2. front
3. living room

• A traditional Sidamo house may combine the alba with a kitchen. The other room is called the holge.

• Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007) A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, page 33
• Gizaw Shimelis, editor (2007), “alba”, in Sidaama-Amharic-English dictionary, Addis Ababa: Sidama Information and Culture department

From Vulgar Latin *alba, from Latin albus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈalba/ [ˈal.β̞a]

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• Rhymes: -alba
• Syllabification: al‧ba

alba f (plural albas)

1. dawn

   Synonym: amanecer

   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 8:

     La orgía se prolongó hasta el alba.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like alba take the singular definite article el (otherwise reserved for masculine nouns) instead of the usual la: el alba. This includes the contracted forms al and del (instead of a la and de la, respectively): al alba, del alba.

These nouns also usually take the indefinite article un that is otherwise used with masculine nouns (although the standard feminine form una is also permitted): un alba or una alba. The same is true with determiners algún/alguna and ningún/ninguna, as well as for numerals ending with 1 (e.g., veintiún/veintiuna).

However, if another word intervenes between the article and the noun, the usual feminine singular articles and determiners (la, una etc.) must be used: la mejor alba, una buena alba.

• If an adjective follows the noun, it must agree with the noun's gender regardless of the article used: el alba única, un(a) alba buena.
• In the plural, the usual feminine singular articles and determiners (las, unas etc.) are always used.

alba

1. feminine singular of albo

• “albo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Borrowed from Spanish alba, from Vulgar Latin *alba, from Latin albus.

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈʔalba/ [ˈʔal.bɐ]
    • Rhymes: -alba
    • Homophone: Alba
  • IPA^(key): /ʔalˈba/ [ʔɐlˈba] (obsolete)
• Syllabification: al‧ba

alba (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎ᜔ᜊ)

1. daybreak; dawn

   Synonyms: liwayway, bukang-liwayway, aliwayway

2. (Christianity) alb

• “alba”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[2], La Noble Villa de Pila, page Alba) Alba [(pc)] C. con que ſe celebra la miſſa

• laab, bala, abla, alab, laba