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alb

Meaningwhite

Common meaning: a white priestly robe

Journey through time

  1. Latinalbus‘white’source
  2. Late Latinalbasource
  3. Old Frenchalbesource
  4. Middle Englishalbesource
  5. Englishalb‘a white priestly robe’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Latin albus ‘white’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry albus, p. 14 · dictionary scan; Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry AUBURN, p. XXXIII · dictionary scan

Roots

Related words

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