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Latin
Etymology
From albulus (“whitish”) + -lus (diminutive suffix).
Adjective
albellus (feminine albella, neuter albellum); first/second-declension adjective
- Diminutive of albus: whitish
- (Medieval Latin): white poplar tree
c. 1196 – 1203, Lambert of Ardres,
Historia comitum Ghisnensium :
- Ob cuius rei memoriam delata est ibi crux lignea et elevata, et albellus cum tilia juxta crucem, ad peregrinorum et quorumlibet viatorum ibi plantata est requiem et praesidium.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- ^ Monumenta Germaniae historica inde ab anno Christi quingentesimo usque ad annum millesimum et quingentesimum: Scriptorum, Book 24, 1879, edidit societas aperiendis fontibus rerum Germanicarum medii aevi, page 585
- ^ albellus 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)