alb
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[edit] English
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Middle English albe<Old English< Medieval Latin alba< Latin albus, "white".
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alb (plural albs)
- A long white robe worn by priests and other ministers at religious ceremonies, underneath most of the other vestments.
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a long white robe worn by priests and other ministers
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[edit] Middle High German
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Old High German also alb. From Indo-European root *albho- (brilliant, shining white).
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Alb was used through the 13th century.
[edit] Noun
alb (plural elbe, plural2 elber)
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- Marshall Jones Company (1930). Mythology of All Races Series, Volume 2 Eddic, Great Britain: Marshall Jones Company, 1930, pp. 220.
[edit] Romanian
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From Latin albus.
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alb 4 nom/acc forms
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declension of alb
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- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter) alv
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From Latin albus.
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alb m. (f. alba, m. pl. albs, f. pl. albas)
- (Vallader) white
