album

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English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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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
  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.

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Australian Kriol

Etymology

From English help.

Verb

album

  1. help

Czech

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Pronunciation

Noun

album n

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

Declension

Further reading

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

Danish

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Etymology

Borrowed from English album.

Pronunciation

Noun

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

  1. An album.

Inflection

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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

Compound words

Descendants

  • Indonesian: album

French

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Pronunciation

Noun

album m (plural albums)

  1. album (all meanings)

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Album, from Latin album (blank white writing tablet), from albus (white).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

album (plural albumok)

  1. album

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative album albumok
accusative albumot albumokat
dative albumnak albumoknak
instrumental albummal albumokkal
causal-final albumért albumokért
translative albummá albumokká
terminative albumig albumokig
essive-formal albumként albumokként
essive-modal
inessive albumban albumokban
superessive albumon albumokon
adessive albumnál albumoknál
illative albumba albumokba
sublative albumra albumokra
allative albumhoz albumokhoz
elative albumból albumokból
delative albumról albumokról
ablative albumtól albumoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
albumé albumoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
albuméi albumokéi
Possessive forms of album
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. albumom albumaim
2nd person sing. albumod albumaid
3rd person sing. albuma albumai
1st person plural albumunk albumaink
2nd person plural albumotok albumaitok
3rd person plural albumuk albumaik

Derived terms

Compound words

References

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

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 Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

Indonesian

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Etymology

From Dutch album, from Latin album.

Pronunciation

Noun

album (plural album-album)

  1. album (all senses)

Derived terms

Compounds

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Album, from Latin album amīcōrum (literally white thing of friends). Doublet of albo. Cf. English album.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

album m (invariable)

  1. album (book, LP)
  2. scrapbook

References

  1. ^ album in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

From albus (white).

Pronunciation

Adjective

album

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

Noun

album n (genitive albī); second declension

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

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative album alba
genitive albī albōrum
dative albō albīs
accusative album alba
ablative albō albīs
vocative album alba

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Descendants

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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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.)

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References

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

References

Polish

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Etymology

Borrowed from German Album or French album.[1] First attested in 1609.[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

album m inan (diminutive albumik, related adjective albumowy)

  1. (photography) album (book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs)
  2. (music) 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. (art) album, sketchbook, sketch pad (book or pad with blank pages for sketching)
    Synonym: szkicownik

Declension

adverbs

Collocations

References

  1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “album”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. ^ Jadwiga Chotkowska (11.06.2019) “ALBUM”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]

Further reading

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

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

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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
    Synonyms: skiva, platta
  3. 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

See also

References

Further reading

Tagalog

Etymology

From English album.

Pronunciation

Noun

album (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎ᜔ᜊᜓᜋ᜔)

  1. album