album

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈælbəm/
• (UK, also) IPA^(key): /ˈalbəm/

Noun

album (plural albums)

1. A book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs.
   • 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:

     Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.

2. A collection, especially of literary items
   • 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).

3. A phonograph record that is composed of several tracks
4. A jacket for such a phonograph record; an album cover.
5. A group of audio recordings, on any medium, intended for distribution as a group.
   • 2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club:

     When the album succeeds, such as on the swaggering, Queen-esque “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us,” it does so on The Darkness’ own terms—that is, as a random ’80s-cliché generator. But with so many tired, lazy callbacks to its own threadbare catalog (including “Love Is Not The Answer,” a watery echo of the epic “I Believe In A Thing Called Love” from 2003’s Permission To Land), Hot Cakes marks the point where The Darkness has stopped cannibalizing the golden age of stadium rock and simply started cannibalizing itself. And, despite Hawkins’ inveterate crotch-grabbing, there was never that much meat there to begin with.

Noun

album n

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

Further reading

• album in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• album in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Etymology

Borrowed from English album.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /albɔm/, [ˈalb̥ɔm]

Noun

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

1. An album.
2. plural indefinite of album

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

album n (plural albums, diminutive albumpje n)

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al.bɔm/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

album m (plural albums)

1. album (all meanings)

Further reading

• “album” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology

Borrowed from German Album, from Latin album (“blank white writing tablet”), from albus (“white”) ^[1] with +‎ -um ending.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒlbum]
• Hyphenation: al‧bum

Noun

album (plural albumok)

1. album

References

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin album. Doublet of albo. Cf. English album, German Album.

Noun

album m (invariable)

1. album (book, LP)
2. scrapbook

Etymology

From English help.

Verb

album

1. help

Etymology

From albus (“white”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.bum/, [ˈaɫ.bũ]

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 n (genitive albī); 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

References

• album in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• album in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• album in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to record in the official tablets (Annales maximi): in album referre (De Or. 2. 12. 52)
    
• album in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• album in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin album, from albus (“white”); or English album (in the music sense).

Noun

album n (definite singular albumet, indefinite plural album or albumer, definite plural albuma or albumene)

1. an album (book for a collection of photographs, stamps etc; a collection of recordings on a CD, LP record etc.)

References

• “album” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin album, from albus (“white”); or English album (in the music sense).

Noun

album n (definite singular albumet, indefinite plural album, definite plural albuma)

1. an album (as Bokmål above)

References

• “album” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Etymology

Borrowed from French album, Latin album. Doublet of alb (“white”), which was inherited.

Noun

album n (plural albumuri or albume)

1. album

References

• album in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language), 2004-2018

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǎlbuːm/
• Hyphenation: al‧bum

Noun

àlbūm m (Cyrillic spelling а̀лбӯм)

1. album

Alternative forms

• álbum

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin album.

Noun

album m (plural albums)

1. (music) album

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin album or English album.

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
3. a book of comic strips (an annual collection of daily strips)

References

• album in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)