Alba

See also: alba, Albà, and albă

Asturian

Proper noun

Alba f

  1. Clipping of Alba de Tormes.
    • Ana Isabel Fernández Rodríguez et al., El pueblu quirosán: una unidá social in 1991, Cultures: revista asturiana de cultura, volume 1, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, page 79:
      Les que más poder de convocatoria tienen son les romeríes de dellos centros devocionales (Alba, Trobanieḷḷu), qu’ atraen a xente de tol conceyu y d’otros conceyos vecinos (Ḷḷena, Riosa, Teberga...).
      Those which have the greatest summoning power are the religious festivals of various devotional centres (Alba, Trobanieḷḷu), which attract people from the entire municipality and from other neighbouring municipalities (Ḷḷena, Riosa, Teberga...).

Catalan

Proper noun

Alba f

  1. Alba (any of various places)

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish Albu.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈalˠəbˠə/

Proper noun

Alba f (genitive Alban)

  1. Archaic form of Albain (“Scotland”).

Declension
Declension of Alba

Fifth declension

Bare forms (no plural for this noun):

Case Singular
Nominative Alba
Vocative a Alba
Genitive Alban
Dative Albain

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an Alba
Genitive na hAlban
Dative leis an Albain

don Albain

  • The definite article is used only in the genitive.

Derived terms
  • Alba Nua f (“Nova Scotia”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
Alba nAlba hAlba not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • “Albu” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • Entries containing “Alba” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.

Latin

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Alba m (genitive Albae); first declension

  1. (Late Latin) Alternative form of Albis
    • (Can we find and add a quotation of Flavius Vopiscus to this entry?)

Declension

First declension, with locative.

Case Singular
Nominative Alba
Genitive Albae
Dative Albae
Accusative Albam
Ablative Albā
Vocative Alba
Locative Albae

References
  • Alba in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Alba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish Albu.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /aɫ̪apə/

Proper noun

Alba f

  1. Scotland
    Tha Loch Laomainn ann an Albainn.[1] — Loch Lomond is in Scotland.

Usage notes

Derived terms

References
  1. http://www.taic.me.uk/faclmain.htm

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
AlbanAlbah-AlbatAlba
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Spanish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈalba/, [ˈalβa]

Proper noun

Alba f

  1. A female given name of modern usage from alba ("dawn").
  2. A habitational surname​ from place names of obscure origin.

Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish

Proper noun

Alba

  1. A surname​.

Statistics

According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Alba is the 277th most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 27,607 individuals.

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