# albor
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [əlˈβo]
* IPA: (Balearic) [əlˈbo]
* IPA: (Valencia) [alˈboɾ]

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin albōrem.

#### Noun

albor f (plural albors)
* whiteness
    Synonym: blancor
* dawnlight

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin alburnus. Doublet of alburn, a learned borrowing.

#### Noun

albor m (plural albors)
* bleak (fish of the genus Alburnus)

### Further reading

* “albor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Galician
### Etymology

From Latin albor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /alˈβoɾ/

### Noun

albor m (plural albores)
* dawn
    Synonyms: abrente, alborada, amencer, aurora
* leaping mullet (Chelon saliens)

#### Derived terms

* Albor
* alborada

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “albor”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “albor”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## Latin
### Etymology

From albus (“white”) +‎ -or.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈal.bor/, [ˈäɫ̪bɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈal.bor/, [ˈälbor]

### Noun

albor m (genitive albōris); third declension
* whiteness
* albumen, egg white

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Synonyms

* (whiteness): albēdō, albitūdō, album
* (albumen): albāmentum, album, albūmen

#### Related terms

* albāmentum
* albārium
* albārius
* albātus
* albēdō
* albeō
* albēscō
* albicēris
* albicō
* albidus
* albitūdō
* albūgō
* albulus
* album
* albūmen
* alburnum
* albus

#### Descendants

* Catalan: albor
* Galician: albor
* Italian: albore
* Old French: aubour
* Portuguese: alvor
* Romanian: alboare
* Sardinian: arbore
* Sicilian: alburi, arburi
* Spanish: albor

### References

* “albor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* albor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* albor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

### Anagrams

* labor, labrō

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin albōrem. Doublet of alvor.

### Noun

albor m (plural albores)
* dawn
* dawnlight

#### Synonyms

* aurora, alvor, alva, alba, alvorada, amanhecer, dilúculo, arrebol (dawnlight)

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin alborem, from Latin albus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /alˈboɾ/ [alˈβ̞oɾ]
* Rhymes: -oɾ
* Syllabification: al‧bor

### Noun

albor m (plural albores)
* whiteness (state of being white)
    Synonyms: blancura, albura
* dawnlight
* dawn

#### Derived terms

* alborada

#### Related terms

* albo

### Further reading

* “albor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10