Alba

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See also: alba, Albà, and albă

English

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑlbə/, /ˈælbə/

Etymology 1

From Romanian Alba.

Proper noun

Alba

  1. A county of Transylvania, Romania.
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Etymology 2

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

Proper noun

Alba

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

Etymology 3

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

Proper noun

Alba

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

Anagrams

Asturian

Proper noun

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

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Alba f

  1. Alba (any of various places)

Irish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈal̪ˠəbˠə/, /ˈalˠəbˠə/

Proper noun

Alba f (genitive Alban)

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

Declension

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

Mutation

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

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Alba ?

  1. Synonym of Scozia

Derived terms

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

Proper noun

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

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

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

References

  • “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

Etymology

From alba, definite feminine form of alb.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

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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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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish Albu.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Alba f (genitive na h-Alba)

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

Usage notes

Declension

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

Descendants

  • → English: Alba

See also

References

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

Mutation

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈalba/
  • Rhymes: -alba
  • Syllabification: Al‧ba

Proper noun

Alba f

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

Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Alba (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎ᜔ᜊ)

  1. a surname from Spanish

Statistics

  • 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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