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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Cicero|origins=la albus}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈaɫ.bũː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈal.bum]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''album''' ''n'' (genitive albī); second declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is the neuter of [[albus]] “white” used as a noun.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Cicero, in De oratore, describes how the chief pontiff recorded the events of each year and set them up on a white board at his house.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Cicero 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant the colour white, as of spotted hides in Virgil's Eclogues, and a white substance.^(OLD 2012) Celsus has ''album oculorum'', the white of the eyes.^(Gaffiot 2016) The white of an egg was ''album ōvī''.^(Wiktionary)
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+ Its public sense was a white tablet or noticeboard: the chief pontiff's annals, the calendar that Livy says was displayed round the forum, and the praetor's edict.^(OLD 2012)^(Etymonline) From this it came to mean any official list, such as the roll of senators from which Tacitus says a man was struck off.^(OLD 2012) Medieval Latin used it of the book of life and of confraternity books.^(Köbler 2010) German scholars revived the word in the 16th century for an ''album amicorum'' of colleagues' signatures, and English ''album'' is recorded in the 1650s.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of the pontiff's white board.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of the calendar displayed round the forum.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it of the senatorial roll.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 1650s – English ''album'' is recorded, first as ''albo'' “souvenir book”.^(Etymonline)
+ 
+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # The colour [[m|en|white]], whiteness.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # A white substance, ''album oculorum'', the white of the eye, ''album ōvī'', the white of an egg.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Wiktionary)
+ # A white tablet or [[m|en|noticeboard]], for edicts and annals.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # An official list or [[m|en|register]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The book of life; a confraternity book.^(Köbler 2010)
+ 
+ ==Related words==
+ * [[en|album]]
+ 
+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}