Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryIn 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. · A collection, especially of literary items. · A phonograph record that is composed of several tracks.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *albʰós Proto-Italic *alβos Latin albusnom. Latin albumbor. English album Borrowed from Latin album (“blank white writing tablet”), from albus (“white”).
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- Borrowed-form mentionalbumla
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