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語源 1

Usually explained as Latin alma (“nourishing, kind”). It has also been used as a short form of Germanic compound names beginning with the element Amal-, as in Amelia.

固有名詞

Alma

1. A female given name from Latin, popular in the 19th century.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 18:

     Alma she called was, a virgin bright:/ That had not yet felt Cupides wanton rage,/ Yet was she woo'd of many a gentle knight […]

2. (Mormonism) One of two prophets, the Elder and the Younger, and a book in the Book of Mormon.
3. Places in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Clarke County, Alabama.
   2. A city in Crawford County, Arkansas.
   3. A ghost town in Santa Clara County, California.
   4. A statutory town in Park County, Colorado.
   5. A city, the county seat of Bacon County, Georgia.
   6. A village in Marion County, Illinois.
   7. A ghost town in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana.
   8. A small city, the county seat of Wabaunsee County, Kansas.
   9. A city in Gratiot County, Michigan.
   10. A small city in Lafayette County, Missouri.
   11. A small city, the county seat of Harlan County, Nebraska.
   12. An unincorporated community in Catron County, New Mexico.
   13. A town in Allegany County, New York.
   14. An unincorporated community in Ross County, Ohio.
   15. An unincorporated community in Stephens County, Oklahoma.
   16. An unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon.
   17. A town in Ellis County, Texas.
   18. An unincorporated community in Page County, Virginia.
   19. A small city, the county seat of Buffalo County, Wisconsin.
   20. A town in Buffalo County, Wisconsin.
   21. A town in Jackson County, Wisconsin.
4. Places in Canada:
   1. A village in Albert County, New Brunswick.
   2. An unincorporated rural community of Pictou County, Nova Scotia.
   3. An unincorporated rural community of Wellington County, Ontario.
   4. A settlement in Prince Edward Island.
   5. A town in Quebec.
5. Former name of Boudouaou, Algeria.

語源 2

固有名詞

Alma

1. (space science) Nonstandard form of ALMA, acronym of Atacama Large Millimeter Array.

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