album
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== English ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from Latin album (“blank white writing tablet”), from albus (“white”).
=== Pronunciation ===
(Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈælbəm/, [ˈæɫb̚m̩], [ˈaɫb̚m̩]
(General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈælbəm/, [ˈæɫb̚m̩]
(General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈælbəm/, [ˈæɫb̚m̩]
(New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈɛlbəm/, [ˈɛɫb̚m̩]
=== Noun ===
album (plural albums or alba)
(historical) In Ancient Rome, a white tablet or register on which the praetor's edicts and other public notices were recorded.
A book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs.
Synonym: scrapbook
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).
A phonograph record that is composed of several tracks.
A jacket or cover for such a phonograph record. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
A group of audio recordings, on any medium, intended for distribution as a group.
==== Synonyms ====
(phonograph record): disk, disc, LP, long-playing
==== Derived terms ====
==== Descendants ====
==== Translations ====
== Australian Kriol ==
=== Etymology ===
(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
From English help.
=== Verb ===
album
help
== Czech ==
=== Etymology ===
First attested in the 19th century.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): [ˈalbum]
=== Noun ===
album n
album (book)
album (group of recordings)
==== Declension ====
=== References ===
=== Further reading ===
“album”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
“album”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
“album”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026
== Danish ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from English album.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /albɔm/, [ˈalb̥ɔm]
=== Noun ===
album n (singular definite albummet, plural indefinite albummer or album)
An album.
==== Inflection ====
==== Synonyms ====
musikalbum
==== Derived terms ====
== Dutch ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from Latin album. Later influenced by German Album and English album.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈɑl.bʏm/
Hyphenation: al‧bum
=== Noun ===
album n (plural albums, diminutive albumpje n)
album (book of photographs, stamps, or autographs)
album (vinyl record or group of audio recordings in any media)
==== Derived terms ====
==== Related terms ====
albino
==== Descendants ====
→ Indonesian: album
== French ==
=== Etymology ===
From Latin album.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /al.bɔm/
=== Noun ===
album m (plural albums)
album (all meanings)
==== Derived terms ====
==== Descendants ====
=== Further reading ===
“album”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
== Hungarian ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from German Album, from Latin album (“blank white writing tablet”), from albus (“white”).
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): [ˈɒlbum]
Rhymes: -um
Hyphenation: al‧bum
=== Noun ===
album (plural albumok)
album (a book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, etc.)
Synonyms: fényképalbum, fotóalbum, bélyegalbum
album (a decorative book published in honor of a person, event, occasion, or place)
Synonyms: emlékkönyv, emlékalbum
1839, the title of a poem by Mihály Vörösmarty, translated by Péter Zollman[1]:
(music) album (a phonograph record that is composed of several tracks)
Synonyms: lemezalbum, nagylemez
==== Declension ====
==== Derived terms ====
=== References ===
=== Further reading ===
album in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
album in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2026).
== Indonesian ==
=== Etymology ===
From Dutch album, from Latin album.
=== Pronunciation ===
(Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈalbum/ [ˈal.bʊm]
Rhymes: -album
Syllabification: al‧bum
=== Noun ===
album (plural album-album)
album (all senses)
==== Derived terms ====
=== Further reading ===
“album”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
== Italian ==
=== Etymology ===
Unadapted borrowing from German Album, from Latin album amīcōrum (literally “white thing of friends”). Doublet of albo. Cf. English album.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈal.bum/
Rhymes: -album
Hyphenation: àl‧bum
=== Noun ===
album m (invariable)
album (book, LP)
scrapbook
=== References ===
== Latin ==
=== Etymology ===
Nominalization of albus (“white”).
=== Pronunciation ===
(Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈaɫ.bũː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈal.bum]
=== Noun ===
album n (genitive albī); second declension
(politics) a blank tablet on which items were recorded, such as the tablet on which the edicts of the praetor were written
Hypernym: tabula
(by extension) register, list of names
Synonym: ratiō
whiteness, white colour
Synonyms: albitūdō, albor
sclera, the white of the eye
in “album ōvī”, albumen, the white of an egg
Synonyms: albāmen / albāmentum, albor, albūmen
Coordinate terms: vitellus, vitellum
==== Declension ====
Second-declension noun (neuter).
==== Descendants ====
=== Adjective ===
album
inflection of albus:
accusative masculine singular
nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
=== 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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
“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
== Norwegian Bokmål ==
=== 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)
an album (book for a collection of photographs, stamps etc; a collection of recordings on a CD, LP record etc.)
==== Derived terms ====
fotoalbum
frimerkealbum
=== References ===
“album” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
== Norwegian Nynorsk ==
=== 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)
an album (as Bokmål above)
==== Derived terms ====
fotoalbum
frimerkealbum
=== References ===
“album” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
== Polish ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from German Album or French album. First attested in 1609.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈal.bum/
Rhymes: -album
Syllabification: al‧bum
=== Noun ===
album m inan (diminutive albumik, related adjective albumowy)
(photography) album (book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs)
(music) album (group of audio recordings, on any medium, intended for distribution as a group)
(Ancient Rome) album (white tablet or register on which the praetor's edicts and other public notices were recorded)
album, diary, journal (book with various photographical or written entries of memories)
Synonyms: imiennik, imionnik, pamiętnik, sztambuch
(somewhat dated) register (list of students at a place of learning)
(art) album, sketchbook, sketch pad (book or pad with blank pages for sketching)
Synonym: szkicownik
==== Declension ====
==== Related terms ====
==== Collocations ====
=== References ===
=== Further reading ===
“album”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
“album”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN[4] (in Polish)
album in PWN's encyclopedia
Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “album”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “album”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 22
Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “album”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
== Romanian ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from French album, Latin album. Doublet of alb (“white”), which was inherited.
=== Noun ===
album n (plural albumuri or albume)
album
=== References ===
“album”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026
== Serbo-Croatian ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from Latin album (“blank white writing tablet”), from albus (“white”).
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ǎlbuːm/
Hyphenation: al‧bum
=== Noun ===
àlbūm m inan (Cyrillic spelling а̀лбӯм)
album
==== Declension ====
== Swedish ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from Latin album or English album.
=== Noun ===
album n
an album, a book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs
an album, a group of audio recordings, on any medium, intended for distribution as a group
Synonyms: skiva, platta
a non-periodical comic book (with an ISBN rather than an ISSN), or a larger-format comic book (definitions vary, though they often overlap)
Synonym: seriealbum
==== Declension ====
==== Related terms ====
==== See also ====
serietidning (“comic book”)
=== References ===
“album”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
“album”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
“album”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
=== Further reading ===
Seriealbum on the Swedish Wikipedia.Wikipedia sv
Seriewikin
== Tagalog ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from Spanish álbum or English album, from Latin album (“blank white writing tablet”).
=== Pronunciation ===
(Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈʔalbum/ [ˈʔal.bʊm]
Rhymes: -album
Syllabification: al‧bum
=== Noun ===
album (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎ᜔ᜊᜓᜋ᜔)
album
==== Related terms ====
=== Further reading ===
“album”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972), Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 21
== Vietnamese ==
=== Etymology 1 ===
From French album (“book of photographs”).
==== Pronunciation ====
(Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔaːn˧˧ ʔɓɔm˧˧]
(Huế) IPA(key): [ʔaːŋ˧˧ ʔɓɔm˧˧]
(Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔaːŋ˧˧ ʔɓɔm˧˧]
Phonetic spelling: an bom
==== Noun ====
album
album (book of photographs)
=== Etymology 2 ===
From English album (“music album”).
==== Pronunciation ====
(Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔaːn˧˧ ʔɓum˧˧]
(Huế) IPA(key): [ʔaːŋ˧˧ ʔɓum˧˧]
(Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔaːŋ˧˧ ʔɓʊm˧˧]
Phonetic spelling: an bum
==== Noun ====
album
album (group of audio recordings)