ALBUMとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Latin album (“blank white writing tablet”), from albus (“white”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈælbəm/, [ˈaɫb̚m̩]

名詞

album (plural albums or alba)

1. (historical) In Ancient Rome, a white tablet or register on which the praetor's edicts and other public notices were recorded.
2. A book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs.
   • 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:

     Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.

   In his free time, he used to open his album and add new pictures to it.

3. A collection, especially of literary items.
   • 1965, American Philological Association, Transactions and Proceedings (Press of Case Western Reserve University), volume 96, page 364

     This mixture was to be effected either by drawing the juries partly from the senate (of about 300 members), partly from an album of 300 equites (Plut. CG 5.2, Comp. 2.1), or by adlecting 600 equites into the senate and drawing the juries from this new senatorial order (Liv. Per. 60).

4. A phonograph record that is composed of several tracks.
5. A jacket or cover for such a phonograph record. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
6. A group of audio recordings, on any medium, intended for distribution as a group.
   • 2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club:

     When the album succeeds, such as on the swaggering, Queen-esque “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us,” it does so on The Darkness’ own terms—that is, as a random ’80s-cliché generator. But with so many tired, lazy callbacks to its own threadbare catalog (including “Love Is Not The Answer,” a watery echo of the epic “I Believe In A Thing Called Love” from 2003’s Permission To Land), Hot Cakes marks the point where The Darkness has stopped cannibalizing the golden age of stadium rock and simply started cannibalizing itself. And, despite Hawkins’ inveterate crotch-grabbing, there was never that much meat there to begin with.

   His albums are very popular on Spotify.

   He has released 8 albums so far.

同意語

• (phonograph record): disk, disc, LP, long-playing

派生語

派生した語

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈaɫ.bũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈal.bum]

名詞

album n (genitive albī); second declension

1. (politics) a blank tablet on which items were recorded, such as the tablet on which the edicts of the praetor were written

   Hypernym: tabula

2. (by extension) register, list of names

   Synonym: ratiō

3. whiteness, white colour

   Synonyms: albitūdō, albor

4. sclera, the white of the eye
5. albumen, the white of an egg

   Synonyms: albāmentum, albor, albumen

   Coordinate terms: vitellus, vitellum

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

派生した語

形容詞

album

1. inflection of albus:
   1. accusative masculine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular

参照

• “album”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “album”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "album", 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)
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to record in the official tablets (Annales maximi): in album referre (De Or. 2. 12. 52)
    
• “album”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “album”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin