Albert
English
Etymology
From Old English Æþelbeorht, from Proto-West Germanic *Aþalaberht, a compound of *aþalaz (“noble”) + *berhtaz (“bright, famous”), or from Old French Albert, from Latin Albertus, itself from the Germanic name. Regardless of the exact route, it is a doublet of Ethelbert. It became popular in 19th-century England due to Queen Victoria’s consort, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈælb.ət/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈæl.bɚt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Proper noun
Albert (countable and uncountable, plural Alberts)
- A male given name from the Germanic languages.
- 1862, Alfred Tennyson, The Idylls of the King: Dedication::
- Thou noble Father of her Kings to be - - - / Dear to thy land and ours, a Prince indeed, / Beyond all titles, and a household name, / Hereafter, thro' all times, Albert the Good.
- 1956, Eddie Condon, Thomas Sugrue, We Called it Music: A Generation of Jazz., Peter Davies, page 40:
- Helena was not flattered. "Albert just doesn't appreciate music," she said. They all called me Albert then. I thought it was a fine name; I like elegance.
- 2000, Anne Enright, What Are You Like?, Random House, published 2001, →ISBN, page 85:
- Hogan, Byrne, O'Brien. She stopped at one name. Albert Delahunty — what Catholic in their right mind would call a child Albert?
- A surname originating as a patronymic.
- 2009 July 19, Lizette Alvarez, “Whee! Also, There’s a Net”, in The New York Times[1]:
- Pass the chalk. Dr. Levine was there with a friend and fellow psychiatrist (detect a pattern?), Alexa Albert, Coco’s mother, who squinted up into the sun as her daughter effortlessly sailed skyward. Dr. Albert is an acrophobe.
- A commune in Somme department, Hauts-de-France, France.
- A constituency in Belize
- A city in Kansas.
- A former rural municipality in Manitoba, Canada, now part of the Municipality of Two Borders.
- A town in New South Wales.
- A ghost town in Texas.
- A crater on the Moon
Derived terms
- Albert chain
- Albert crape, Albert crepe
- albertite
- Albert Lea
- Alberton
- Albert sauce
- Albertville
- albertype
- Albie
- Lake Albert
- Prince Albert
Related terms
Translations
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Further reading
- (crater) Albert (crater)
Noun
Albert (plural Alberts)
- Synonym of Albert chain.
Anagrams
Albanian
Proper noun
Albert m
- a male given name
Declension
| singular | ||
|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | Albert | Alberti |
| accusative | Albertin | |
| dat./abl. | Alberti | Albertit |
Azerbaijani
| Cyrillic | Алберт | |
|---|---|---|
| Abjad | آلبئرت | |
Proper noun
Albert (definite accusative Alberti, plural Albertlər)
- a transliteration of the English male given name Albert
- 2018, Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson, Millətlər niyə tənəzzül edir, page 95:
- Bu ölkələrdə, güman ki, çox sayda potensial Bill Geytslər və bir, ya da iki Albert Eynşteyn var, amma onlar təhsil ala bilmədiyi və həyatda öz yerlərini tapmadığı üçün əkinçiliklə məşğul olmağa, ya da hərbi xidmətə getməyə məcburdurlar.
- There are probably many a potential Bill Gates and one or two Albert Einsteins in these countries, but they are forced to farm or join the military because they cannot get an education and find their place in life.
- 2019 September 6, Xalq Qəzeti[2]:
- Azərbaycan paytaxtında Milli Qəhrəman Albert Aqarunovun xatirəsini əbədiləşdirmək məqsədilə heykəli ucaldılır.
- A monument to the memory of National Hero Albert Agarunov is being erected in the capital of Azerbaijan.
- 2020, Nicat Tarverdiyev, İslam və Motivasiya, page 75:
- Unutmayın ki, bizim hər birimizin ixtiyarında olan zaman Mikelancelo, Leonardo Da Vinçi, Tomas Cefferson, Paster, Helen Keller, Albert Eynşteyn kimi dahi şəxsiyyətlərin sahib olduğu vaxt qədərdir.
- Remember that the time each of us has at our disposal is as much time as that of geniuses like Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, Pasteur, Helen Keller, Albert Einstein had.
Catalan
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Albert m
- a male given name, equivalent to English Albert
Cebuano
Etymology
Proper noun
Albert
- a male given name from English [in turn from the Germanic languages]
Derived terms
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈalbɛrt]
Proper noun
Albert m anim
- a male given name, equivalent to English Albert
Declension
Proper noun
Albert m anim (female equivalent Albertová)
- a male surname
Declension
Further reading
- “Albert”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)
- Moldanová, Dobrava (2019) Naše příjmení [Our surnames] (in Czech), 5th edition, Prague: Agentura Pankrác, →ISBN, page 27
Danish
Proper noun
Albert
- a male given name, equivalent to English Albert
Related terms
- female given name: Alberte
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɑl.bərt/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: Al‧bert
Proper noun
Albert m
- a male given name, equivalent to English Albert
Derived terms
Related terms
Estonian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɑlb̥ert/, [ˈɑlb̥ertˑ]
Proper noun
Albert
- a male given name, equivalent to English Albert
Faroese
Proper noun
Albert m
- a male given name, equivalent to English Albert
Usage notes
Patronymics
- son of Albert: Albertsson
- daughter of Albert: Albertsdóttir
Declension
| singular | |
|---|---|
| indefinite | |
| nominative | Albert |
| accusative | Albert |
| dative | Alberti |
| genitive | Alberts |
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɑlbert/, [ˈɑ̝lbe̞rt̪]
- Rhymes: -ɑlbert
- Syllabification(key): Al‧bert
- Hyphenation(key): Al‧bert
Proper noun
Albert
- a male given name, equivalent to English Albert
Usage notes
- Chiefly used as a middle name.
Declension
| Inflection of Albert (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Albert | Albertit | |
| genitive | Albertin | Albertien | |
| partitive | Albertia | Alberteja | |
| illative | Albertiin | Alberteihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Albert | Albertit | |
| accusative | nom. | Albert | Albertit |
| gen. | Albertin | ||
| genitive | Albertin | Albertien | |
| partitive | Albertia | Alberteja | |
| inessive | Albertissa | Alberteissa | |
| elative | Albertista | Alberteista | |
| illative | Albertiin | Alberteihin | |
| adessive | Albertilla | Alberteilla | |
| ablative | Albertilta | Alberteilta | |
| allative | Albertille | Alberteille | |
| essive | Albertina | Alberteina | |
| translative | Albertiksi | Alberteiksi | |
| abessive | Albertitta | Alberteitta | |
| instructive | — | Albertein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Statistics
- Albert is the 352nd most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 925 male individuals (and as a middle name to 4,371 more, making it more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
French
Alternative forms
- Aubert (rare)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /al.bɛʁ/
Audio (Paris): (file) Audio: (file)
Proper noun
Albert m
- a male given name, equivalent to English Albert
- a surname originating as a patronymic
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Anagrams
German
Etymology
Contraction of Adalbert, from Old High German adal (“noble”) + beraht (“bright”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
Albert m (proper noun, strong, genitive Alberts, plural Alberte or Alberts)
- a male given name from Old High German[1]
Proper noun
Albert m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Alberts or (with an article) Albert, feminine genitive Albert, plural Alberts)
Declension
Related terms
Descendants
- Transliterations
- Japanese: アルベルト (Aruberuto)
- → Chinese: 阿爾貝特 / 阿尔贝特 (Ā'ěrbèitè) (transliteration)
References
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɒlbɛrt]
- Hyphenation: Al‧bert
- Rhymes: -ɛrt
Proper noun
Albert
- a male given name, equivalent to English Albert
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | Albert | Albertek |
| accusative | Albertet | Alberteket |
| dative | Albertnek | Alberteknek |
| instrumental | Alberttel | Albertekkel |
| causal-final | Albertért | Albertekért |
| translative | Albertté | Albertekké |
| terminative | Albertig | Albertekig |
| essive-formal | Albertként | Albertekként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | Albertben | Albertekben |
| superessive | Alberten | Alberteken |
| adessive | Albertnél | Alberteknél |
| illative | Albertbe | Albertekbe |
| sublative | Albertre | Albertekre |
| allative | Alberthez | Albertekhez |
| elative | Albertből | Albertekből |
| delative | Albertről | Albertekről |
| ablative | Alberttől | Albertektől |
| non-attributive possessive – singular |
Alberté | Alberteké |
| non-attributive possessive – plural |
Albertéi | Albertekéi |
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
|---|---|---|
| 1st person sing. | Albertem | Albertjeim |
| 2nd person sing. | Alberted | Albertjeid |
| 3rd person sing. | Albertje | Albertjei |
| 1st person plural | Albertünk | Albertjeink |
| 2nd person plural | Albertetek | Albertjeitek |
| 3rd person plural | Albertjük | Albertjeik |
Icelandic
Proper noun
Albert m (proper noun, genitive singular Alberts)
- a male given name, equivalent to English Albert
Declension
| indefinite singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Albert |
| accusative | Albert |
| dative | Albert, Alberti |
| genitive | Alberts |
Norwegian
Proper noun
Albert
- a male given name, equivalent to English Albert
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈal.bɛrt/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -albɛrt
- Syllabification: Al‧bert
Etymology 1
Learned borrowing from Latin Albertus. Doublet of Albrecht.
Proper noun
Albert m pers (female equivalent Alberta)
- a male given name, equivalent to English Albert
Declension
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Proper noun
Albert f
- genitive plural of Alberta
Further reading
- Albert in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
Albert m (genitive/dative lui Albert)
- a surname from German
References
- Iordan, Iorgu (1983) Dicționar al numelor de familie românești [A Dictionary of Romanian Family Names][3], Bucharest: Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈalbert]
Proper noun
Albert m pers
- a male given name, equivalent to English Albert
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | Albert | Albertovia |
| genitive | Alberta | Albertov |
| dative | Albertovi | Albertom |
| accusative | Alberta | Albertov |
| locative | Albertovi | Albertoch |
| instrumental | Albertom | Albertmi |
Further reading
- “Albert”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025
Swedish
Etymology
First recorded in Sweden in 1283. Cognate with German and English Albert.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /¹albæʈ/
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
Albert c (genitive Alberts)
- a male given name, equivalent to English Albert