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English
Etymology
Albanian + -o
Noun
albo (plural albos)
- (US, offensive, ethnic slur) An Albanian.
Anagrams
Afar
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /alˈbo/,
- Hyphenation: al‧bo
Noun
albó f (plural álob m)
- blister
References
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie), Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
Italian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin album (“blank tablet”) (19th century). Doublet of album.
Noun
albo m (plural albi)
- notice board, bulletin board
- honours/honors board
- roll or register, especially of an organization or profession
- volume or booklet of comic book stories
Etymology 2
From Latin albus (“white”), possibly taken as a learned term (first attested 14th century), from Proto-Italic *alβos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elbʰós.
Adjective
albo (feminine alba, masculine plural albi, feminine plural albe)
- (literary) white
- Synonym: bianco
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Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From albus (“white”) + -ō.
Verb
albō (present infinitive albāre, perfect active albāvī, supine albātum); first conjugation
- (transitive) to make white, whiten
Conjugation
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Etymology 2
Inflected form of albus (“white”).
Adjective
albō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of albus
References
- “albo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- albo 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)
- albo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Old Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *alibo. First attested in 1424.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /alʲbɔ/
- IPA(key): (15th CE) /alʲbɔ/
Conjunction
albo
- or
- Synonym: (emphatic) alboż
- because
- Synonyms: abo, abociem, abojem, abowiem
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “albo”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
- Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965) “albo”, in Jan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
- Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “albo”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “albo”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Polish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Polish albo.
Conjunction
albo
- or
- Synonyms: abo, bądź, czy, lub
- Antonyms: ani, i, ni, oraz
- Możesz mieć albo to, albo to. ― You can have either this or that.
Particle
albo
- (colloquial) used to express the speaker's doubt or surprise
- Synonyms: (archaic) alboż, czy, czyż
- Albo to będzie przydatne? ― Do you really think this is going to be handy?
Declension
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Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), albo is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 51 times in scientific texts, 7 times in news, 34 times in essays, 66 times in fiction, and 105 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 263 times, making it the 198th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
albo f
- vocative singular of alba
References
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “albo”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 5
Further reading
- albo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- albo in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “albo”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- “ALBO”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 02.03.2010
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “albo”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “albo”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “albo”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 22
Silesian
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish albo.
Pronunciation
Conjunction
albo
- or
- Synonym: abo
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Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish albo, borrowed from Latin albus. The latter was replaced in Spanish, and much of Romance besides, by blanco (blancus). Doublet of obo and álbum.
Pronunciation
Adjective
albo (feminine alba, masculine plural albos, feminine plural albas)
- (formal, poetic) white
- Synonym: blanco
Derived terms
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