alburnus

From albus (“white”) +‎ -urnus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aɫˈbʊr.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [alˈbur.nus]

alburnus m (genitive alburnī); second declension

1. (Late Latin) a white fish, probably the bleak or blay (Alburnus alburnus)

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ausonius to this entry?)

Second-declension noun.

• (bleak, blay): albica (Mediaeval)

• Translingual: Alburnus
• → English: alburn
• → Luxembourgish: Aalbes
• Old French: alborne, auborne
  • → Middle English: auborne, aubourne
    • English: auburn

• “1. alburnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "ALBURNUS", 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)
• 1 alburnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “95/2”

alburnus (feminine alburna, neuter alburnum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (Medieval Latin) synonym of subalbus (“whitish”)

First/second-declension adjective.

• "1. ALBURNUS", 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)