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Albe vs Alba - What's the difference?

albe | alba |

As proper nouns the difference between albe and alba

is that albe is while alba is , catalan equivalent to alban.

albe

English

Conjunction

(English Conjunctions)
  • (obsolete) Although; despite the fact that.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
    • Why should not that dead carrion satisfie / The guilt, which if he liued had thus long, / His life for due reuenge should deare abie? / The trespasse still doth liue, albe the person die.

    Noun

    (en noun)

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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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    Etymology 3

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

    Noun

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