albo

Albanian +‎ -o

albo (plural albos)

1. (US, offensive, ethnic slur) An Albanian.

• Boal, bola

• IPA^(key): /alˈbo/, [ʔʌlˈbɔ]
• Hyphenation: al‧bo

albó f (plural álob m)

1. blister

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.bo/
• Rhymes: -albo
• Hyphenation: àl‧bo

Borrowed from Latin album (“blank tablet”) (19th century[1]). Doublet of album.

albo m (plural albi)

1. notice board, bulletin board
2. honours/honors board
3. roll or register, especially of an organization or profession
4. volume or booklet of comic book stories

From Latin albus (“white”), possibly taken as a learned term (first attested 14th century[2]), from Proto-Italic *alβos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elbʰós.

albo (feminine alba, masculine plural albi, feminine plural albe)

1. (literary) white

   Synonym: bianco

• alba

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.boː/, [ˈäɫ̪boː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.bo/, [ˈälbo]

From albus (“white”) +‎ -ō.

albō (present infinitive albāre, perfect active albāvī, supine albātum); first conjugation

1. (transitive) to make white, whiten

• (make white): albicō

• English: albata

Inflected form of albus (“white”).

albō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of albus

• “albo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• albo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• albo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *alibo. First attested in 1424.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /alʲbɔ/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /alʲbɔ/

albo

1. or

   Synonym: (emphatic) alboż

2. because

   Synonyms: abo, abociem, abojem, abowiem

• Polish: albo
• Silesian: albo

• Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “albo”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
• Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965) “albo”, in Jan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
• Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “albo”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “albo”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.bɔ/
• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈal.bɔ/

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• Rhymes: -albɔ
• Syllabification: al‧bo

Inherited from Old Polish albo.

albo

1. or

   Synonyms: abo, bądź, czy, lub

   Antonyms: ani, i, ni, oraz

   Możesz mieć albo to, albo to. ― You can have either this or that.

albo

1. (colloquial) used to express the speaker's doubt or surprise

   Synonyms: (archaic) alboż, czy, czyż

   Albo to będzie przydatne? ― Do you really think this is going to be handy?

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), albo is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 51 times in scientific texts, 7 times in news, 34 times in essays, 66 times in fiction, and 105 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 263 times, making it the 198th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

albo f

1. vocative singular of alba

• albo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• albo in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “albo”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• “ALBO”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 02.03.2010
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “albo”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “albo”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “albo”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 22

Inherited from Old Polish albo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈalbɔ/
• Rhymes: -albɔ
• Syllabification: al‧bo

albo

1. or

   Synonym: abo

• albo in silling.org

From Old Spanish albo, borrowed from Latin albus. The latter was replaced in Spanish, and much of Romance besides, by blanco (blancus). Doublet of obo and álbum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈalbo/ [ˈal.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -albo
• Syllabification: al‧bo

albo (feminine alba, masculine plural albos, feminine plural albas)

1. (formal, poetic) white

   Synonym: blanco

• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

• “albo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014