Albanus

Unknown. Suggested as derived from a Western European root *alb- found in various place names, perhaps also the source of Alpes, and/or from a Proto-Indo-European root *alb- (“mountain”) (see *h₂el- (“to rise, be tall”)), or from Proto-Celtic *albo-, *albiyū (“upper realm, world; mountain, Alps”) (whence also Albion). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?).

It is believed that they are related to the modern nation of the Albanians.^[1] While it has been identified with the Zgërdhesh hill-fort near Krujë in northern Albania, scholars believe the Illyrian settlement was abandoned in the 2nd century BC, when the inhabitants moved to Durrës and Lezhë.^[2]

Possibly related to arbën from Proto-Albanian *arwā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂rh₃ (“arable land, soil”); compare *h₂erh₃- (“to plough”)^[3]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /alˈbaː.nus/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /alˈba.nus/,

Albānus m (genitive Albānī, feminine Albāna); second declension

1. Albanian (Balkan Albania, Caucasian Albania and Scotland)
   • 1815, Joannis Severinus Vaterus, Linguarum totius orbis Index alphabeticus, quarum Grammaticae, Lexica, collectiones vocabulorum recensentur, patria significatur, historia adumbratur, Berolini, p. 10:

     Albani in orientali parte Illyriae veteris et Epiri passimque in Dalmatia, Bulgaria, Romania vivunt.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

First/second-declension adjective, with locative.

Albānus m sg (genitive Albānī); second declension

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Alban
2. A river in Albania, now probably the Samur River

Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Galician: Albán
• Portuguese: Alvão, Albão
• → Ancient Greek: Ἀλβᾰνός (Albanós)
  • Greek: Αλβανός (Alvanós, now means Albanian)

• “Albanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Albanus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Albanus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly