alba

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈæl.bə/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A type of lyrical poetry, traditionally Provençal, about lovers who must part at dawn.
  2. A white-flowered shrub rose of the hybrid Rosa × alba.
  3. plural of album form-of,plural,rare
    — For quotations using this term, see Citations:alba.
  4. Synonym of alb.
    — On a little plot of grass near the kitchen the family were spreading out a large supply of priestly vestments—albas, casullas, capas pluviales, ornamentos, parmentos, cíngulas, estolas, frontales, etc., etc., etc.
  5. A flower of the hybrid Rosa × alba.

词形变化

albas plural albas plural albas plural

词汇关系

衍生词
aquila alba linea alba magnesia alba phlegmasia alba dolens terra alba

词源

词源 1
First attested in 1821; borrowed from Occitan alba, ultimately from Latin albus (“white”); compare Spanish alba (“dawn”).
词源 2
First attested in 1848; borrowed from Latin alba (the feminine form of albus (“white”)) in the now-disused species name of binomial nomenclature Rosa alba (it is now considered a hybrid and is accordingly called Rosa × alba).
词源 3
First attested in 1859; borrowed from Latin alba, the nominative plural form of album (“blank tablet”), whence the English album.
词源 4
Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin alba (“alb”), from Latin alba (as in tunica alba (“white tunic”), vestis alba (“white garment”)), feminine of albus (“white”). Doublet of alb.
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