albo

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Albanian +‎ -o

Noun[edit]

albo (plural albos)

  1. (US, offensive, ethnic slur) An Albanian.

Anagrams[edit]

Afar[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /alˈbo/, [ʔʌlˈbɔ]
  • Hyphenation: al‧bo

Noun[edit]

albó f (plural álob m)

  1. blister

References[edit]

  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Italian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈal.bo/
  • Rhymes: -albo
  • Hyphenation: àl‧bo

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from Latin album (“blank tablet”) (19th century[1]). Doublet of album.

Noun[edit]

albo m (plural albi)

  1. notice board, bulletin board
  2. honours/honors board
  3. roll or register, especially of an organization or profession
  4. volume or booklet of comic book stories

Etymology 2[edit]

From Latin albus (“white”), possibly taken as a learned term (first attested 14th century[2]), from Proto-Italic *alβos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elbʰós.

Adjective[edit]

albo (feminine alba, masculine plural albi, feminine plural albe)

  1. (literary) white
    Synonym: bianco
Related terms[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ albo (sostantivo) in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
  2. ^ albo (aggettivo) in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore

Latin[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From albus (“white”) +‎ -ō.

Verb[edit]

albō (present infinitive albāre, perfect active albāvī, supine albātum); first conjugation

  1. (transitive) to make white, whiten
Conjugation[edit]
   Conjugation of albō (first conjugation)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present albō albās albat albāmus albātis albant
imperfect albābam albābās albābat albābāmus albābātis albābant
future albābō albābis albābit albābimus albābitis albābunt
perfect albāvī albāvistī albāvit albāvimus albāvistis albāvērunt,
albāvēre
pluperfect albāveram albāverās albāverat albāverāmus albāverātis albāverant
future perfect albāverō albāveris albāverit albāverimus albāveritis albāverint
passive present albor albāris,
albāre 		albātur albāmur albāminī albantur
imperfect albābar albābāris,
albābāre 		albābātur albābāmur albābāminī albābantur
future albābor albāberis,
albābere 		albābitur albābimur albābiminī albābuntur
perfect albātus + present active indicative of sum
pluperfect albātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
future perfect albātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present albem albēs albet albēmus albētis albent
imperfect albārem albārēs albāret albārēmus albārētis albārent
perfect albāverim albāverīs albāverit albāverīmus albāverītis albāverint
pluperfect albāvissem albāvissēs albāvisset albāvissēmus albāvissētis albāvissent
passive present alber albēris,
albēre 		albētur albēmur albēminī albentur
imperfect albārer albārēris,
albārēre 		albārētur albārēmur albārēminī albārentur
perfect albātus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect albātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — albā — — albāte —
future — albātō albātō — albātōte albantō
passive present — albāre — — albāminī —
future — albātor albātor — — albantor
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives albāre albāvisse albātūrum esse albārī albātum esse albātum īrī
participles albāns — albātūrus — albātus albandus
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
albandī albandō albandum albandō albātum albātū
Synonyms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
  • English: albata

Etymology 2[edit]

Inflected form of albus (“white”).

Adjective[edit]

albō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of albus

References[edit]

  • “albo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • albo 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)
  • albo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Old Polish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *alibo. First attested in 1424.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /alʲbɔ/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /alʲbɔ/

Conjunction[edit]

albo

  1. or
    Synonym: (emphatic) alboż
  2. because
    Synonyms: abo, abociem, abojem, abowiem

Derived terms[edit]

conjunctions

Descendants[edit]

References[edit]

Polish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Inherited from Old Polish albo.

Conjunction[edit]

albo

  1. or
    Synonyms: abo, bądź, czy, lub
    Antonyms: ani, i, ni, oraz
    Możesz mieć albo to, albo to. ― You can have either this or that.

Particle[edit]

albo

  1. (colloquial) used to express the speaker's doubt or surprise
    Synonyms: (archaic) alboż, czy, czyż
    Albo to będzie przydatne? ― Do you really think this is going to be handy?
Declension[edit]
Combined forms of albo
singular plural
1st person albom albośmy
2nd person alboś alboście
3rd person albo albo
Derived terms[edit]
noun
conjunction/particle
phrases

Trivia[edit]

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), albo is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 51 times in scientific texts, 7 times in news, 34 times in essays, 66 times in fiction, and 105 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 263 times, making it the 198th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

Etymology 2[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun[edit]

albo f

  1. vocative singular of alba

References[edit]

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “albo”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 5

Further reading[edit]

  • albo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • albo in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “albo”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • “ALBO”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 02.03.2010
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “albo”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎[3]
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “albo”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎[4]
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “albo”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎[5] (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 22

Silesian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old Polish albo.

Pronunciation[edit]

Conjunction[edit]

albo

  1. or
    Synonym: abo

Further reading[edit]

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Spanish albo, borrowed from Latin albus. The latter was replaced in Spanish, and much of Romance besides, by blanco (blancus). Doublet of obo and álbum.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈalbo/ [ˈal.β̞o]
  • Rhymes: -albo
  • Syllabification: al‧bo

Adjective[edit]

albo (feminine alba, masculine plural albos, feminine plural albas)

  1. (formal, poetic) white
    Synonym: blanco

Derived terms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

References[edit]

Further reading[edit]

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