Alban

See also alban, and albán

English

Etymology

Latin Albanus (“resident of Alba”) (a mountain region and an ancient city of Latium).

Proper noun

Alban

1. A male given name.
   • 1593, William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2: Act II, Scene I

     Forsooth, a blind man at Saint Alban's shrine

     Within this half hour hath receiv'd his sight

Usage notes

• Though borne by the first British martyr, the given name has always been rare in English.

Translations

male given name

• Albanian: Alban (sq) m, Albana (sq) f
• Catalan: Albà
• Danish: Alban (da)
• Dutch: Alban (nl)
• French: Alban (fr)
• German: Alban (de)

• Italian: Albano (it)
• Latin: Albanus (la)
• Norwegian: Alban (no)
• Portuguese: Albano (pt)
• Spanish: Albano (es)
• Swedish: Alban (sv)

Adjective

Alban (not comparable)

1. (historical) Pertaining to the ancient Latin city of Alba Longa.
   • 1847, Leonhard Schmitz, A History of Rome: From the Earliest Times to the Death of Commodus, A.D. 192, Harper & brothers, page 14:

     But beside this, there existed at Lavinium another tradition, which inverts the order of things by stating that Lavinium was an Alban colony, founded by six hundred Alban families.

   • 1922, Sir James George Frazer, AThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, Forgotten Books, page 152:

     Now the Alban dynasti bore the name of Silvii or Wood, and it can hardly be without significance that in the vision of the historic glories of Rome revealed to Aeneas in the underworld, Virgil, an antiquary as well as a poet, should represent all the line of Silvii as crowned with oak.

   • 1998, Robert Alan Gurval, Actium and Augustus: The Politics and Emotions of Civil War, University of Michigan Press, page 223:

     Reminded of the Alban king’s descent from Silvius, the son of Aeneas, Vergil’s reader must judge the crime of Mettus and his gruesome punishment with greater horror and revulsion.

2. (historical) Pertaining to Alba, or the area now covered by Scotland.
   • 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin 2012, p. 66:

     At some point during the Picto-Gaelic fusion, St Andrew was adopted as patron of the Alban kingdom.

Anagrams

• banal
• Laban
• nabla

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Albanian

Proper noun

Alban

1. A male given name, cognate to English Alban.

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French

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Alban

1. A male given name, cognate to English Alban.

Related terms

• feminine form: Albane

Anagrams

• banal

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Irish

Proper noun

Na hAlban f

1. genitive form of Albain

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
Alban	nAlban	hAlban	tAlban
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Old Irish

Proper noun

Alban f

1. genitive singular form of Albu

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
Alban	unchanged	nAlban
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Swedish

Proper noun

Alban

1. Alban, A male given name

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Welsh

Proper noun

Yr Alban f 

1. Scotland