album

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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈælbəm/, [ˈaɫb̚m̩]

Noun

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.
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.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

Translations

Australian Kriol

Etymology

From English help.

Verb

album

1. help

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈalbum]

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

Etymology

Borrowed from English album.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /albɔm/, [ˈalb̥ɔm]

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/
• 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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al.bɔm/

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
• → Persian: آلبوم (âlbom)
• → Turkish: albüm

Further reading

• “album”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

album (plural albumok)

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

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 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

Etymology

From Dutch album, from Latin album.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈalbum/ [ˈal.bʊm]
• Rhymes: -album
• Syllabification: al‧bum

Noun

album (plural album-album)

1. album (all senses)

Derived terms

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 of 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

Latin

Etymology

From albus (“white”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈal.bum/, [ˈäɫ̪bʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.bum/, [ˈälbum]

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).

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^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
• “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

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. First attested in 1609.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.bum/
• Rhymes: -album
• Syllabification: al‧bum

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

Related terms

Collocations

References

Further reading

• album in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• album in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• album in PWN's encyclopedia
• 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

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

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 Svensk ordbok (SO)
• album in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• album in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Further reading

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

Tagalog

Etymology

From English album.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔalbum/ [ˈʔal.bʊm]
• Rhymes: -album
• Syllabification: al‧bum

Noun

album (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎ᜔ᜊᜓᜋ᜔)

1. album