English
album
Album comes from Latin album ‘blank white writing tablet’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *albʰós.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*albʰós‘white’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*alβos‘white’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEalbus‘white’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEalbum‘blank white writing tablet’
- Englishearliest quotation 1965same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*albʰós‘white’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*alβos‘white’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEalbus‘white’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEalbum‘blank white writing tablet’
- Englishearliest quotation 1965same form
Earliest quotation: 1965, American Philological Association: “This mixture was to be effected either by drawing…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *albʰós ‘white’
through Proto-Italic *alβos ‘white’
through Latin albus ‘white’
through Latin album ‘blank white writing tablet’
Today it means
noun In Ancient Rome, a white tablet or register on which the praetor's edicts and other public notices were recorded.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *albʰós / album