Albanus

• albānus (alternative lower case form)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aɫˈbaː.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [alˈbaː.nus]

From Alba (Longa) +‎ -ānus.

Albānus (feminine Albāna, neuter Albānum); first/second-declension adjective

1. pertaining to the city of Alba Longa
2. (nominalized, masculine, plural only) inhabitants of this city

First/second-declension adjective.

• → Ancient Greek: Ἀλβᾰνός (Albănós)
  • Greek: Αλβανός (Alvanós, now means Albanian)

Albānus m sg (genitive Albānī); second declension

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Alban

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• Albanian: Albano
• French: Alban
• English: Alban
• Galician: Albán
• German: Alban
• Italian: Albano
• Portuguese: Albano, Alvão, Albão
• Romanian: Alban
• Spanish: Albano
  • → Tagalog: Albano
• Swedish: Alban

Unknown. Suggested as derived from a Western European root *alb- found in various place names, perhaps also the source of Alpes, and/or from a Proto-Indo-European root *alb- (“mountain”) (see *h₂el- (“to rise, be tall”)), or from Proto-Celtic *albo-, *albiyū (“upper realm, world; mountain, Alps”) (whence also Albion). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?).

It is believed that they are related to the modern nation of the Albanians.^[1] While it has been identified with the Zgërdhesh hill-fort near Krujë in northern Albania, scholars believe the Illyrian settlement was abandoned in the 2nd century BC, when the inhabitants moved to Durrës and Lezhë.^[2]

Possibly related to arbën from Proto-Albanian *arwā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂rh₃ (“arable land, soil”); compare *h₂erh₃- (“to plough”)^[3]

Albānus m (genitive Albānī, feminine Albāna); second declension

1. Albanian (Balkan Albania, Caucasian Albania and Scotland)
   • 1815, Joannis Severinus Vaterus, Linguarum totius orbis Index alphabeticus, quarum Grammaticae, Lexica, collectiones vocabulorum recensentur, patria significatur, historia adumbratur, Berolini, p. 10:

     Albani in orientali parte Illyriae veteris et Epiri passimque in Dalmatia, Bulgaria, Romania vivunt.

     Albanians live in the eastern part of ancient Illyria, Epirus and here and there in Dalmatia, Bulgaria, and Romania.

2. (nominalized, masculine, plural only):
   1. Albanians, inhabitants of Caucasian Albania
   2. (Medieval Latin) Albanians, inhabitants of Albania

First/second-declension adjective.

Albānus m sg (genitive Albānī); second declension

1. a river in Albania, now probably the Samur River

Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• “Albanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Albanus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Albanus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly