album

See also Appendix:Variations of "album"

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin album (“blank white writing tablet”), from albus (“white”).

Noun

Wikipedia album (plural albums or alba)

1. A book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs.
2. A jacket for a phonograph record; an album cover.
3. A phonograph record.
4. (Roman antiquities) This word needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
   • 1965, American Philological Association, Transactions and Proceedings (Press of Case Western Reserve University), volume 96, page 364

     This mixture was to be effected either by drawing the juries partly from the senate (of about 300 members), partly from an album of 300 equites (Plut. CG 5.2, Comp. 2.1), or by adlecting 600 equites into the senate and drawing the juries from this new senatorial order (Liv. Per. 60).

5. A group of audio recordings, on any medium, intended for distribution as a group.

Synonyms

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• disk
• disc
• LP
• long-playing

Translations

book for photographs, stamps, or autographs

Azeri: albom (az) Czech: album (cs) n. Dutch: album (nl) n. Esperanto: albumo (eo) Finnish: albumi, valokuva-albumi French: album (fr) m. German: Album (de) n. Hebrew: אָלְבּוּם (he) (álbum) m.

Hungarian: album (hu) Icelandic: albúm (is) n. Polish: album (pl) m. Russian: альбом (ru) (al'bóm) m. Spanish: álbum (es) m. Swedish: album (sv) Turkish: albüm (tr) Welsh: albwm (cy) m.

vinyl record

Dutch: album (nl) n. French: album (fr) m. German: Album (de) n. Hebrew: אָלְבּוּם (he) (álbum) m.

Polish: album (pl) m. Spanish: álbum (es) m. Swedish: album (sv) Welsh: albwm (cy) m.

group of audio recordings on any media

Dutch: album (nl) n. German: Album (de) n. Hebrew: אָלְבּוּם (he) (álbum) m. Polish: album (pl) m.

Spanish: álbum (es) m. Swedish: album (sv) Welsh: albwm (cy) m.

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Arabic: ألبوم (’álbum) Japanese: アルバム (arubamu)

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Czech

Noun

album n.

1. album (book)
2. album (group of recordings)

Declension

    declension of album

	singular	plural
nominative	album	alba
genitive	alba	alb
dative	albu	albům
accusative	album	alba
vocative	album	alba
locative	albu	albech
instrumental	albem	alby

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /albɔm/, [ˈalb̥ɔm]

Noun

album n. (singular definite albummet, plural indefinite albummer or album)

1. album

Inflection

    Inflection of album

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	album	albummet	albummer album	albummerne albummene
genitive	albums	albummets	albummers albums	albummernes albummenes

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

album n. (plural albums, diminutive albumpje)

1. album (book of photographs, stamps, or autographs)
2. album (vinyl record or group of audio recordings in any media)

Derived terms

• debuutalbum

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French

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Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

album m. (plural albums)

1. album (all meanings)

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Italian

Noun

album m. inv.

1. album (book, LP)
2. scrapbook

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Latin

Etymology

From albus (“white”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /ˈal.bum/

Adjective

album

1. nominative neuter singular of albus
2. accusative masculine singular of albus
3. accusative neuter singular of albus
4. vocative neuter singular of albus

Noun

album (genitive albī); n, second declension

1. whiteness, white color
2. sclera, the white of the eye
3. albumen, the white of an egg
4. (politics) a blank tablet on which items were recorded, such as the tablet on which the edicts of the praetor were written
5. register, list of names

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	album	alba
genitive	albī	albōrum
dative	albō	albīs
accusative	album	alba
ablative	albō	albīs
vocative	album	alba

Synonyms

• (whiteness): albitūdō, albor
• (albumen of an egg): albāmentum, albūmen

Related terms

• albus

Descendants

• English: album
• French: album
• Russian: альбо́м (al'bóm) m.

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin album (“blank white writing tablet”), from albus (“white”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ǎlbuːm/
• Hyphenation: al‧bum

Noun

àlbūm m. (Cyrillic spelling а̀лбӯм)

1. album

Declension

    declension of album

	singular	plural
nominative	àlbūm	albumi
genitive	albúma	albuma
dative	albumu	albumima
accusative	album	albume
vocative	albume	albumi
locative	albumu	albumima
instrumental	albumom	albumima

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Swedish

Noun

album n.

1. an album, a book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs.
2. an album, a group of audio recordings, on any medium, intended for distribution as a group.

Declension

Declension of album

	singular		plural
Neuter	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	album	albumet	album	albumen
genitive	albums	albumets	albums	albumens

Related terms

• fotoalbum
• frimärksalbum