album

English

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Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin album (“blank white writing tablet”), from albus (“white”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈælbəm/,

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

Noun

English Wikipedia has an article on:

album

Wikipedia

album (plural albums or alba)

1. (historical) In Ancient Rome, a white tablet or register on which the praetor's edicts and other public notices were recorded.
2. A book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs.
   • 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:

     Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.

3. A collection, especially of literary items
   • 1965, American Philological Association, Transactions and Proceedings (Press of Case Western Reserve University), volume 96, page 364

     This mixture was to be effected either by drawing the juries partly from the senate (of about 300 members), partly from an album of 300 equites (Plut. CG 5.2, Comp. 2.1), or by adlecting 600 equites into the senate and drawing the juries from this new senatorial order (Liv. Per. 60).

4. A phonograph record that is composed of several tracks
5. A jacket or cover for such a phonograph record. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
6. A group of audio recordings, on any medium, intended for distribution as a group.
   • 2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club:

     When the album succeeds, such as on the swaggering, Queen-esque “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us,” it does so on The Darkness’ own terms—that is, as a random ’80s-cliché generator. But with so many tired, lazy callbacks to its own threadbare catalog (including “Love Is Not The Answer,” a watery echo of the epic “I Believe In A Thing Called Love” from 2003’s Permission To Land), Hot Cakes marks the point where The Darkness has stopped cannibalizing the golden age of stadium rock and simply started cannibalizing itself. And, despite Hawkins’ inveterate crotch-grabbing, there was never that much meat there to begin with.

Synonyms

• (phonograph record): disk, disc, LP, long-playing

Derived terms

Translations

Czech

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

album

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

album n

1. album (book)
2. album (group of recordings)

Declension

Further reading

• album in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• album in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• album in Internetová jazyková příručka

Danish

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album

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Etymology

Borrowed from English album.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /albɔm/,

Noun

album n (singular definite albummet, plural indefinite albummer or album)

1. An album.

Inflection

Synonyms

• musikalbum

Derived terms

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin album. Later influenced by German Album and English album.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑl.bʏm/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: al‧bum

Noun

album n (plural albums, diminutive albumpje n)

1. album (book of photographs, stamps, or autographs)
2. album (vinyl record or group of audio recordings in any media)

Derived terms

Related terms

• albino

Descendants

• → Indonesian: album

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

album

Wikipedia ^fr

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al.bɔm/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

album m (plural albums)

1. album (all meanings)

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Russian: альбом (alʹbom)
  • → Armenian: ալբոմ (albom)
  • → Azerbaijani: albom
  • → Kazakh: альбом (albom)
  • → Kyrgyz: альбом (albom)
  • → Uzbek: albom
• → Turkish: albüm

Further reading

• “album”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Album, from Latin album (“blank white writing tablet”), from albus (“white”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: al‧bum
• Rhymes: -um

Noun

album (plural albumok)

1. album
   • 1839, the title of a poem by Mihály Vörösmarty, translated by Péter Zollman:

     A Guttenberg-albumba

     Gutenberg inscription
     (literally, “Into Gutenberg’s Album”, i.e. intended for a memorial album, pp. 328–9)

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• album in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• album in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

Indonesian

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album

Wikipedia ^id

Etymology

From Dutch album, from Latin album.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: al‧bum

Noun

album (plural album-album, first-person possessive albumku, second-person possessive albummu, third-person possessive albumnya)

1. album:
   1. a book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs.
   2. a collection, especially of literary items.

      Synonym: antologi

   3. a group of audio recordings, on any medium, intended for distribution as a group.

Further reading

• “album” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Album, from Latin album amīcōrum (literally “white thing of friends”). Doublet of albo. Cf. English album.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.bum/
• Rhymes: -album
• Hyphenation: àl‧bum

Noun

album m (invariable)

1. album (book, LP)
2. scrapbook

References

Kriol

Etymology

From English help.

Verb

album

1. help

Latin

Etymology

From albus (“white”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.bum/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.bum/,

Adjective

album

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

Noun

album n (genitive albī); second declension

1. whiteness, white colour
2. sclera, the white of the eye
3. albumen, the white of an egg
4. (politics) a blank tablet on which items were recorded, such as the tablet on which the edicts of the praetor were written
5. register, list of names

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Synonyms

• (whiteness): albitūdō, albor
• (albumen of an egg): albāmentum, albūmen

Related terms

• albus

Descendants

• English: album
• French: album
• German: Album
• Portuguese: álbum
• Romanian: album
• Russian: альбо́м m (alʹbóm)
• Serbo-Croatian: album
• Spanish: álbum, album

References

• “album”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “album”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• album 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)
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to record in the official tablets (Annales maximi): in album referre (De Or. 2. 12. 52)
    
• “album”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “album”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Norwegian Bokmål

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album

Wikipedia ^no

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin album, from albus (“white”); or English album (in the music sense).

Noun

album n (definite singular albumet, indefinite plural album or albumer, definite plural albuma or albumene)

1. an album (book for a collection of photographs, stamps etc; a collection of recordings on a CD, LP record etc.)

Derived terms

• fotoalbum
• frimerkealbum

References

• “album” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin album, from albus (“white”); or English album (in the music sense).

Noun

album n (definite singular albumet, indefinite plural album, definite plural albuma)

1. an album (as Bokmål above)

Derived terms

• fotoalbum
• frimerkealbum

References

• “album” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Album or French album, from Latin album. First attested in 1609.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.bum/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -album
• Syllabification: al‧bum

Noun

album m inan (diminutive albumik)

1. album (book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs)
2. album (group of audio recordings, on any medium, intended for distribution as a group)
3. (Ancient Rome) album (white tablet or register on which the praetor's edicts and other public notices were recorded)
4. album, diary, journal (book with various photographical or written entries of memories)

   Synonyms: imiennik, imionnik, pamiętnik, sztambuch

5. (somewhat dated) register (list of students at a place of learning)
6. album, sketchbook

   Synonym: szkicownik

Declension

Derived terms

Collocations

References

Further reading

• album in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• album in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “album”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “album”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 22
• Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “album”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French album, Latin album. Doublet of alb (“white”), which was inherited.

Noun

album n (plural albumuri or albume)

1. album

References

• album in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin album (“blank white writing tablet”), from albus (“white”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǎlbuːm/
• Hyphenation: al‧bum

Noun

àlbūm m (Cyrillic spelling а̀лбӯм)

1. album

Declension

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

seriealbum

Wikipedia ^sv

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin album or English album.

Noun

album n

1. an album, a book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs
2. an album, a group of audio recordings, on any medium, intended for distribution as a group
4. a non-periodical comic book (with an ISBN rather than an ISSN), or a larger-format comic book (definitions vary, though they often overlap)

   Synonym: seriealbum

Declension

Related terms

See also

• serietidning (“comic book”)

References

• album in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Further reading

• Seriealbum on the Swedish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^sv
• Seriewikin