albe
English
Etymology 1
From all + be (it). More at albeit.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔːlˈbiː/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Conjunction
albe
- (obsolete) Synonym of albeit.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Why ſhould not that dead carrion ſatisfie
The guilt, which if he liued had thus long,
His life for due reuenge ſhould deare abie ?
The treſpaſſe ſtill doth liue, albe the perſon die.
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ælb/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
albe (plural albes)
- Obsolete spelling of alb.
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch albe, from Latin alba.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɑl.bə/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: al‧be
- Rhymes: -ɑlbə
Noun
albe f (plural alben)
Friulian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *alba, from Latin albus. Compare Italian alba.
Noun
albe f (plural albis)
Italian
Noun
albe f
- plural of alba
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈaɫ.bɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈal.be]
Adjective
albe
- vocative masculine singular of albus
Middle English
Noun
albe
- alternative form of awbe
Old English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɑl.be/, [ˈɑɫ.be]
Noun
albe f
- an alb (type of priest vestment)
Declension
Weak n-stem:
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | albe | alban |
accusative | alban | alban |
genitive | alban | albena |
dative | alban | album |
Descendants
- English: alb
Old French
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *alba, from Latin albus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈaɫ.bə]
Noun
albe oblique singular, f (oblique plural albes, nominative singular albe, nominative plural albes)
- dawn (sunrise; start of the day)
Descendants
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈal.be/
Adjective
albe
- nominative/accusative feminine/neuter plural of alb