different between cumbre vs cumber

English

Verb

cumbre (third-person singular simple present cumbres, present participle cumbring, simple past and past participle cumbred)

1. Archaic form of cumber.

Anagrams

• cumber, recumb

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin culmen, culminis, from Proto-Italic *kolamen, from Proto-Indo-European *kelH-. The sense of “gathering” is a calque of English summit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kumb?e/, [?k?m.b?e]
• Rhymes: -umb?e
• Hyphenation: cum?bre

Noun

cumbre f (plural cumbres)

1. summit, peak, top, hilltop (topmost point or surface, especially of a mountain)

   Synonyms: cima, pico

2. summit (gathering or assembly of leaders)
3. (figuratively) apex, acme

Derived terms

• cumbral
• encumbrar

Related terms

• culminación
• culminar

Adjective

cumbre (plural cumbres)

1. main; primary; culminating; peak

   Synonym: colmo

English

Alternative forms

• cumbre (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English combren, borrowed from the second element of Old French encombrer.Cognate with German kümmern (“to take care of”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?mb?/
• Rhymes: -?mb?(?)

Verb

cumber (third-person singular simple present cumbers, present participle cumbering, simple past and past participle cumbered)

1. (transitive, dated) To slow down; to hinder; to burden; to encumber.

   • Why asks he what avails him not in fight, / And would but cumber and retard his flight?

   • The multiplying variety of arguments, especially frivolous ones, […] but cumbers the memory.

   • 1886, Sir Walter Scott, The Fortunes of Nigel. Pub.: Adams & Charles Black, Edinburgh; page 321:

     […] the base villain who murdered this poor defenceless old man, when he had not, by the course of nature, a twelvemonth's life in him, shall not cumber the earth long after him.

Synonyms

• encumber

Derived terms

• cumberground
• cumbersome
• cumberworld
• cumbrous

Related terms

• encumber
• encumbrance

Translations

See also

• Thesaurus:hinder

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “cumber”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• cumbre, recumb