alburnus

== Latin == === Etymology === From albus (“white”) + -urnus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aɫˈbʊr.nʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [alˈbur.nus] === Noun === alburnus m (genitive alburnī); second declension (Late Latin) a white fish, probably the bleak or blay (Alburnus alburnus) (Can we find and add a quotation of Ausonius to this entry?) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Synonyms ==== (bleak, blay): albica (Mediaeval) ==== Descendants ==== Translingual: Alburnus → English: alburn → Luxembourgish: Aalbes Old French: alborne, auborne → Middle English: auborne, aubourne English: auburn ==== References ==== “1. alburnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "ALBURNUS", 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) “1 alburnus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “95/2” === Adjective === alburnus (feminine alburna, neuter alburnum); first/second-declension adjective (Medieval Latin) synonym of subalbus (“whitish”) ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== References ==== "1. ALBURNUS", 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)