album

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈælbəm/, [ˈaɫb̚m̩]

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

album (plural albums or alba)

1. (historical) In Ancient Rome, a white tablet or register on which the praetor's edicts and other public notices were recorded.
2. 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.

   In his free time, he used to open his album and add new pictures to it.

3. 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).

4. A phonograph record that is composed of several tracks.
5. A jacket or cover for such a phonograph record. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
6. 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.

   His albums are very popular on Spotify.

   He has released 8 albums so far.

• (phonograph record): disk, disc, LP, long-playing

(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) From English help.

album

1. help

First attested in the 19th century.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈalbum]

• Audio:

  (file)

album n

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

• “album”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “album”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “album”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Borrowed from English album.

• IPA^(key): /albɔm/, [ˈalb̥ɔm]

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

1. An album.

• musikalbum

Borrowed from Latin album. Later influenced by German Album and English album.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑl.bʏm/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: al‧bum

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)

• albino

• → Indonesian: album

From Latin album.

• IPA^(key): /al.bɔm/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

album m (plural albums)

1. album (all meanings)

• “album”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Borrowed from German Album, from Latin album (“blank white writing tablet”), from albus (“white”).^[1]

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

album (plural albumok)

1. album
   • 1839, the title of a poem by Mihály Vörösmarty, translated by Péter Zollman^[1]:

     A Guttenberg-albumba

     Gutenberg inscription
     (literally, “Into Gutenberg’s Album”, i.e. intended for a memorial album, pp. 328–9)

• album in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• album in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

From Dutch album, from Latin album.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈalbum/ [ˈal.bʊm]
• Rhymes: -album
• Syllabification: al‧bum

album (plural album-album)

1. album (all senses)

• “album”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Unadapted borrowing from German Album, from Latin album amīcōrum (literally “white thing of friends”). Doublet of albo. Cf. English album.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.bum/
• Rhymes: -album
• Hyphenation: àl‧bum

album m (invariable)

1. album (book, LP)
2. scrapbook

Nominalization of albus (“white”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈaɫ.bũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈal.bum]

album n (genitive albī); second declension

1. (politics) a blank tablet on which items were recorded, such as the tablet on which the edicts of the praetor were written

   Hypernym: tabula

2. (by extension) register, list of names

   Synonym: ratiō

3. whiteness, white colour

   Synonyms: albitūdō, albor

4. sclera, the white of the eye
5. albumen, the white of an egg

   Synonyms: albāmentum, albor, albumen

   Coordinate terms: vitellus, vitellum

Second-declension noun (neuter).

album

1. inflection of albus:
   1. accusative masculine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular

• “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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], 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

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

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.)

• fotoalbum
• frimerkealbum

• “album” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

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

1. an album (as Bokmål above)

• fotoalbum
• frimerkealbum

• “album” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from German Album or French album.^[1] First attested in 1609.^[2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.bum/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -album
• Syllabification: al‧bum

album m inan (diminutive albumik, related adjective albumowy)

1. (photography) album (book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs)
2. (music) album (group of audio recordings, on any medium, intended for distribution as a group)
3. (Ancient Rome) album (white tablet or register on which the praetor's edicts and other public notices were recorded)
4. album, diary, journal (book with various photographical or written entries of memories)

   Synonyms: imiennik, imionnik, pamiętnik, sztambuch

5. (somewhat dated) register (list of students at a place of learning)
6. (art) album, sketchbook, sketch pad (book or pad with blank pages for sketching)

   Synonym: szkicownik

• album in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• album in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• album in PWN's encyclopedia
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “album”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “album”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 22
• Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “album”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN

Borrowed from French album, Latin album. Doublet of alb (“white”), which was inherited.

album n (plural albumuri or albume)

1. album

• “album”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

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

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

àlbūm m inan (Cyrillic spelling а̀лбӯм)

1. album

Borrowed from Latin album or English album.

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

   Synonyms: skiva, platta

4. a non-periodical comic book (with an ISBN rather than an ISSN), or a larger-format comic book (definitions vary, though they often overlap)

   Synonym: seriealbum

• serietidning (“comic book”)

• album in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• album in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• album in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• Seriealbum on the Swedish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^sv
• Seriewikin

Borrowed from Spanish álbum or English album, from Latin album (“blank white writing tablet”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔalbum/ [ˈʔal.bʊm]
• Rhymes: -album
• Syllabification: al‧bum

album (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎ᜔ᜊᜓᜋ᜔)

1. album

• “album”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972), Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 21

From French album (“book of photographs”).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔaːn˧˧ ʔɓɔm˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔaːŋ˧˧ ʔɓɔm˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔaːŋ˧˧ ʔɓɔm˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: an bom

album

1. album (book of photographs)

From English album (“music album”).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔaːn˧˧ ʔɓum˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔaːŋ˧˧ ʔɓum˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔaːŋ˧˧ ʔɓʊm˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: an bum

album

1. album (group of audio recordings)