Alban
English
Etymology
From Latin Albānus (“resident of Alba”) (a mountain region and an ancient city of Latium).
Proper noun
Alban
- A male given name from Latin.
- 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):: 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.
Derived terms
Translations
male given name
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Adjective
Alban (not comparable)
- (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.
- 1847, Leonhard Schmitz, A History of Rome: From the Earliest Times to the Death of Commodus, A.D. 192, Harper & brothers, page 14:
- (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.
- 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin 2012, p. 66:
Anagrams
Albanian
Etymology
A variant of Arban, with regular r-l change.
Proper noun
Alban m
- a male given name, equivalent to English Alban.
French
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Alban ?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Alban.
Related terms
- feminine form: Albane
Anagrams
Irish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Na hAlban f sg
Mutation
Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
Alban | nAlban | hAlban | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Old Irish
Proper noun
Alban f
Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
Alban | unchanged | nAlban |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Swedish
Proper noun
Alban c (genitive Albans)
- a male given name, equivalent to English Alban.
Welsh
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Yr Alban f
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