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Albae

Albae is a Latin form of albus, meaning “white, pale; bright”. It is the nominative plural feminine adjective.

Found 39 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Philippicae 3.6: … nihil aliud agere, nihil moliri nisi caedem civium atque interitum civitatis videret. atque ea legio consedit Albae. quam potuit urbem eligere aut opportuniorem ad res gerendas aut fideliorem aut fortiorum virorum aut amicior …

Vergil, Georgics 2.91: sunt Thasiae vites, sunt et Mareotides albae,

All forms of albus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.