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[ˈalbiːna] · Czech
01 / Meaning & origin
Albína is a feminine given name documented in Czech, Icelandic and Slovak. English Wiktionary traces it to Latin Albīna.
Separate records with matching spellings: Albina (Catalan, Danish), Albīna (Latvian)
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Borrowed from Latin Albīna.
Afgeleid van het Latijnse naam Albinus.
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04 / Through time
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Albina— “white”
The city of Alba Longa doubtless took its first name from that universal word that named the Alps, the Elbe, Elves, Albion, and Albin from their whiteness, and left _albus_ still the adjective in Rome. Legend declared that the city was called from the white sow with fifty piglings, who directed Æneas to its site; but, however this might be, it was the source of the family of Albinus in the Postumian gens, whence, slightly altered, came the name of the soldier Albanus, the…
The city of Alba Longa doubtless took its first name from that universal word that named the Alps, the Elbe, Elves, Albion, and Albin from their whiteness, and left _albus_ still the adjective in Rome. Legend declared that the city was called from the white sow with fifty piglings, who directed Æneas to its site; but, however this might be, it was the source of the family of Albinus in the Postumian gens, whence, slightly altered, came the name of the soldier Albanus, the British martyr, whose death led to the change from Verulamium to St. Albans, and from whom we take the English Christian name of Alban. Another St. Albanus, or Abban, was an Irish bishop, consecrated by St. Patrick, and probably the source of the Scottish Christian name Albany, which was often used as a rendering of the Keltic Finn, also meaning white. Another Albanus, or Albinus, of a British family, established in Armorica, was a monastic saint and bishop of Angers, naming the family of St. Aubin; and perhaps William de Albini, the ancestor of the Howards. The modern English feminine Albina, or Albinia, must have been formed as a name of romance from some of these.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part IV, Chapter IV (Cognomina), Section I · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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