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单词 alban
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Albann.1adj.

Brit. /ˈɔːlbən/, /ˈɒlbən/, U.S. /ˈɑlbən/
Forms: Middle English–1600s Albane, Middle English 1600s– Alban.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin Albānī, Albānus.
Etymology: As noun < classical Latin Albānī (plural) inhabitants of Alba Longa, use as noun of masculine plural of Albānus, adjective (see below). As adjective < classical Latin Albānus of or relating to Alba Longa < Alba , more fully Alba Longa , literally ‘long Alba’, the name of a city of ancient Latium reputedly founded by Aeneas's son Ascanius (Virgil Aeneid 3. 390 f.) + -ānus -an suffix.With Alban lake (see quot. 1635 at sense B. 2) compare classical Latin lacus Albānus.
A. n.1
Ancient History. An inhabitant or citizen of Alba Longa, a city of ancient Latium.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of ancient or medieval Europe > native or inhabitant of states or regions Italy > [noun]
Albana1387
Latina1398
Venetian1432
Picentine1598
sybarite1598
Faliscan1600
Picene1601
sybaritan1608
Picenian1610
Peucetian1615
Pompeian1654
Praenestine1683
Iapygian1773
Messapian1773
Atestine1924
Cumaean1931
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 81 Tullius Hostilius hadde batayle aȝenst Fydenates, and prayde to come wiþ hym Mecius, kyng of Albans [?a1475 anon. tr. kynge of the Albanes; L. regem Albanorum].
1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. i. f. 1 The Albanes..summoned warres to bee inferred vpon them [sc. the Romans].
1595 A. Golding tr. J. Hurault Politicke, Moral, & Martial Disc. xviii. 467 Maltesta Balion..commanded his Albans to go into the marches.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. i. 21 After the Albanes had thus quit the cittie [L. egressis urbe Albanis], downe went the Romanes everie where with the buildings.
1626 C. Potter tr. P. Sarpi Hist. Quarrels 331 The Venetians..resolued..to make ready all their Troupes, Italians and Albans, with some others of the Vltramontans.
1776 Universal Mag. July 24/2 When the two Commanders came to a parley, both of them expected a willingness to have an union formed between the Albans and Romans.
1866 tr. P. Guéranger Life St. Cecilia iv. 51 This memorable contest..decided the victory of the Romans over the Albans.
1928 H. Last in Cambr. Anc. Hist. VII. xii. 377 The fate of the treacherous Mettius Fufetius, appointed dictator of the Albans when Cluilius was killed, merely points a moral.
2005 Historia 54 383 In traditional history, the founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus,..originated in Alba Longa and therefore the Romans were relatives of the Albans.
B. adj.
1. Ancient History. Of or relating to Alba Longa or its inhabitants.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Italy > [adjective] > ancient parts
Tyrrhenea1387
Latinc1400
Albana1522
Latian1598
Picene1600
Picenian1619
Ligurian1632
Praenestine1683
Tyrrhenian1797
Picentine1888
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xii. xiii. l. 85 Lat the kyngis be namyt..Pryncis and faderis of the stile Albane [L. sint Albani per saecula reges].
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. i. 20 The Albane captaine having as little heart as honestie and truth [L. Albano non plus animi erat quam fidei],..little by little withdraweth himselfe towarde the mountains.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 201 His Line: From whence the Race of Alban Fathers [L. Albanique patres] come, And the long Glories of Majestick Rome.
1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall IV. xliv. 309 The execution of the Alban dictator, who was dismembered by eight horses.
1854 T. D. Wilson Outl. Hist. i. 126 The modern villa of Palazzuolo is supposed to mark the site of the ancient Alban city.
1928 H. Last in Cambr. Anc. Hist. VII. xii. 377 Tullus..was above all things a warrior... His main activities are provoked by an Alban invasion.
1989 Oxf. Compan. Classical Lit. (ed. 2) 490/2 To reconcile this Trojan origin with the tradition that Rome was a colony of Alba Longa.., a series of Alban kings was invented.
2005 Historia 54 384 The appearance of the Alban army under the walls of Rome demonstrated some claims of the Albans to the Romans.
2. Frequently literary and poetic. Of, belonging to, or designating an area of hills and lakes formed from extinct volcanoes, not far from Rome and within the former territory of Alba Longa, famed as a summer resort since ancient times.
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1635 W. Saltonstall tr. G. Mercator Historia Mundi 760 Betweene Marinus and long Alba there is the Alban Lake, which Livy mentions.
1685 J. Dryden Sylvæ 26 Alban Lakes from Alba's name so call'd; Where King Latinus then his Oxen Stall'd.
1712 A. Pope tr. Ovid Fable Vertumnus & Pomona in Misc. Poems 134 A thousand Sylvans, Demigods, and Gods, That haunt our Mountains and our Alban Woods.
1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xxvi. 274 He can see the Alban Mountains, the Appenines, the Sabine Hills, and the blue Mediterranean.
1882 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 177 See! in yon murrhine goblet rare Novennial Alban wine is glancing.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia I. 190/3 The Alban vineyards produce the popular wines known as those of the Castelli Romani.
2004 Fodor's See It Italy 6 The stunning baroque gardens at Tivoli, the towns of the Alban Hills.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

albann.2

Brit. /ˈalb(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈɑlbən/
Forms: 1800s– alban, 1800s– albane Brit. /ˈalbeɪn/, U.S. /ˈɑlbeɪn/.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French albane.
Etymology: < French albane (A. Payen 1852, in Comptes rendus hebd. de l'Acad. des Sci. 35 118) < classical Latin albus white (see album n.2) + French -ane -an suffix. With the form alban compare German Alban (1854 or earlier).
Chemistry. Now rare.
A white crystalline resinous substance (or mixture of substances) present in natural gutta-percha latex.
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1852 A. Payen in Chemist 3 554/2 In order to give an idea of their characteristic properties, I call crystalbane or albane, that which is easily obtained in white crystals, and fluavile, the third, which is yellow, perceptibly fluid and flows at a low temperature.
1879 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Alban forms from 14 to 16 per cent. of gutta percha.
1911 E. W. Lewis in W. A. Davis & S. Sadtler Allen's Commerc. Org. Anal. (ed. 4) IV. 158 Recently H. Bornträger found alban to consist of several distinct substances.
1966 Industr. & Engin. Chem. Product Res. & Devel. 5 135/1 This crude balata contains..30 to 75% mixture of natural resins and hydrocarbons—e.g., the albane resins—and up to 50% moisture.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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