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Alb vs Alba - What's the difference?

alb | alba |

As a noun alb

is elf (especially an evil one).

As a proper noun alba is

, catalan equivalent to alban.

alb

English

(wikipedia alb)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A long white robe worn by priests and other ministers at religious ceremonies, underneath most of the other vestments.

    • Related terms

    * album * albumin * albus * Albion

    See also

    * epigonation * epimanikion * epitrachelion * maniple * omophorion * rhason * sakkos * sticharion * zone

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    alba

    English

    Etymology 1

    First attested in 1821; from the (etyl) alba, ultimately from the (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A type of lyrical poetry, traditionally , about lovers who must part at dawn.

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    Etymology 2

    First attested in 1848; from the (etyl) alba (the feminine form of albus, “white”) in the now-disused species name of ''(l) ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A white-flowered shrub rose of the hybrid .
  • A flower of the hybrid Rosa'' × ''alba .

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    * (List of Rosa species)

    Etymology 3

    First attested in 1859; from the (etyl) alba, the nominative plural form of , whence the (etyl) album.

    Noun

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