German

Noun

Album n ‎(genitive Albums, plural Alben)

1. album

Declension

Hyponyms

• Photoalbum

English

Noun

album ‎(plural albums or alba)

1. A book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs.
   • 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:

     Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.

2. A collection, especially of literary items
   • 1965, American Philological Association, Transactions and Proceedings (Press of Case Western Reserve University), volume 96, page 364

     This mixture was to be effected either by drawing the juries partly from the senate (of about 300 members), partly from an album of 300 equites (Plut. CG 5.2, Comp. 2.1), or by adlecting 600 equites into the senate and drawing the juries from this new senatorial order (Liv. Per. 60).

3. A phonograph record that is composed of several tracks
4. A jacket for such a phonograph record; an album cover.
5. A group of audio recordings, on any medium, intended for distribution as a group.
   • 2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club:

     When the album succeeds, such as on the swaggering, Queen-esque “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us,” it does so on The Darkness’ own terms—that is, as a random ’80s-cliché generator. But with so many tired, lazy callbacks to its own threadbare catalog (including “Love Is Not The Answer,” a watery echo of the epic “I Believe In A Thing Called Love” from 2003’s Permission To Land), Hot Cakes marks the point where The Darkness has stopped cannibalizing the golden age of stadium rock and simply started cannibalizing itself. And, despite Hawkins’ inveterate crotch-grabbing, there was never that much meat there to begin with.

Synonyms

• disk
• disc
• LP
• long-playing

Translations

Czech

Noun

album n

1. album (book)
2. album (group of recordings)

Declension

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English album.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /albɔm/, [ˈalb̥ɔm]

Noun

album n (singular definite albummet, plural indefinite albummer or album)

1. An album.
2. plural indefinite of album

Inflection

Derived terms

• musikalbum
• debutalbum
• opsamlingsalbum

Synonyms

• musikalbum

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

album n ‎(plural albums, diminutive albumpje n)

1. album (book of photographs, stamps, or autographs)
2. album (vinyl record or group of audio recordings in any media)

Derived terms

• debuutalbum

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al.bɔm/

Noun

album m ‎(plural albums)

1. album (all meanings)

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Album, from Latin album ‎(“blank white writing tablet”), from albus ‎(“white”) ^[1] with +‎ -um ending.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒlbum]
• Hyphenation: al‧bum

Noun

album ‎(plural albumok)

1. album

Declension

Derived terms

• albumborító
• bélyegalbum
• fényképalbum
• fotóalbum
• stúdióalbum

References

1. ↑ Tótfalusi István, Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára. Tinta Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 2005, ISBN 963 7094 20 2

Italian

Noun

album m ‎(invariable)

1. album (book, LP)
2. scrapbook

Kriol

Etymology

From English help.

Verb

album

1. help

Latin

Etymology

From albus ‎(“white”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.bum/

Adjective

album

1. nominative neuter singular of albus
2. accusative masculine singular of albus
3. accusative neuter singular of albus
4. vocative neuter singular of albus

Noun

album n ‎(genitive albī); second declension

1. whiteness, white color
2. sclera, the white of the eye
3. albumen, the white of an egg
4. (politics) a blank tablet on which items were recorded, such as the tablet on which the edicts of the praetor were written
5. register, list of names

Inflection

Second declension.

Synonyms

• (whiteness): albitūdō, albor
• (albumen of an egg): albāmentum, albūmen

Related terms

• albus

Descendants

• English: album
• French: album
• Russian: альбо́м m ‎(alʹbóm)

References

• album in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• album in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ALBUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to record in the official tablets (Annales maximi): in album referre (De Or. 2. 12. 52)
    
• album in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• album in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin album, from albus ‎(“white”); or English album (in the music sense).

Noun

album n ‎(definite singular albumet, indefinite plural album or albumer, definite plural albuma or albumene)

1. an album (book for a collection of photographs, stamps etc; a collection of recordings on a CD, LP record etc.)

Derived terms

• frimerkealbum

References

• “album” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin album, from albus ‎(“white”); or English album (in the music sense).

Noun

album n ‎(definite singular albumet, indefinite plural album, definite plural albuma)

1. an album (as Bokmål above)

Derived terms

• frimerkealbum

References

• “album” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin album ‎(“blank white writing tablet”), from albus ‎(“white”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǎlbuːm/
• Hyphenation: al‧bum

Noun

àlbūm m ‎(Cyrillic spelling а̀лбӯм)

1. album

Declension

Spanish

Noun

album m ‎(plural albums)

1. (music) album

Swedish

Noun

album n

1. an album, a book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs
2. an album, a group of audio recordings, on any medium, intended for distribution as a group
3. a book of comic strips (an annual collection of daily strips)

Declension

Related terms

• albumblad
• debutalbum
• fotoalbum
• frimärksalbum
• samlingsalbum
• seriealbum

References

• album in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)