Meaning of albus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. white (properly without luster), dull white
   adjective, declension-1, declension-2
2. clear, bright
   adjective, declension-1, declension-2
3. pale, fair, gray, hoary
   adjective, declension-1, declension-2
4. favorable, fortunate, auspicious, propitious
   adjective, declension-1, declension-2, figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“totus pice nigrior atra, candida cauda tamen; color est quoque cruribus albus.”

All blacker than pitch was he, yet white was his tail; his legs were snowy white.

“duo vermes in eo sunt, unus albus et unus rufus”

"There are," said he, "two serpents, one white and the other red […] "

“colores vinis quattuor: albus, fulvus, sanguineus, niger.”

There are four colors of wine: white, brown, sanguine, and black.

“p. 1250, Thomas Aquinas, De ente et essentia […] et sic de ipsa aliquid praedicatur per accidens ratione eius, in quo est, sicut dicitur quod homo est albus, quia Socrates est albus, quamvis hoc non conveniat homini in eo quod homo. And thus something is accidentally asserted, that is, we say that man is white because Socrates is white, although this does not come about for men because [Socrates] is a man.”

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