alb

From Middle English albe, from Old English, from Medieval Latin alba, from Latin albus (“white”).

• IPA^(key): /ælb/
• (UK, also) IPA^(key): /alb/

alb (plural albs)

1. (Christianity, chiefly Anglicanism, Roman Catholicism) A long, white robe worn by priests and other ministers, underneath most of the other vestments.
   • 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus 2014, p. 131:

     ‘The confidence of the very rich,’ thought Father Carter watching Binkie shaking out albs and cottas and calling rather loudly to the organist.

• album
• albumin
• albus
• Albion

• epigonation
• epimanikion
• epitrachelion
• maniple
• omophorion
• rhason
• sakkos
• sticharion
• zone

• Abl., BAL, BLA, LAB, Lab, Lab., abl., lab

From Latin albus. Only used in poetic/literary contexts or found in some toponyms.

alb (feminine alba, masculine plural albs, feminine plural albes)

1. (poetic) white

• blanc

• alba
• eixalbar

• alp

From Old High German alp, from Proto-Germanic *albiz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *albʰós.

alb m (plural elbe or elber)

1. elf
2. friendly spirit, ghostly being, genius, or fairy

• Used through the 13th century.

• German: Alb, Albdruck, Albtraum.

• Marshall Jones Company (1930). Mythology of All Races Series, Volume 2 Eddic, Great Britain: Marshall Jones Company, 1930, pp. 220.

From Latin albus, from Proto-Italic *alβos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élbʰos, *álbʰos, *albʰós (“white”). Doublet of album.

• IPA^(key): /alb/

alb m or n (feminine singular albă, masculine plural albi, feminine and neuter plural albe)

1. white
2. (figuratively) clean, pure, immaculate

• negru

• alba
• albicios
• albuț

• albi
• albeață
• albastru

alb m (plural albi)

1. the color white
2. white person

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter) alv

From Latin albus.

alb m (feminine singular alba, masculine plural albs, feminine plural albas)

1. (Vallader) white

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) nair
• (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) ner
• (Surmiran) neir