Where does “album” come from?
Album comes from Latin album, the neuter form of albus meaning white, though the specific semantic path to English usage remains unclear.
album (English): A book specially designed to keep photographs,...
Definitions
- A book specially designed to keep photographs,...
Ancestry of “album”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | album | inflection of albus:
## accusative masculine... |
| 2 | Latin | Albus | — |
| 3 | Proto-Italic | alβos | white |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂élbʰos | white |
Words derived from “album”