different between grayling vs umber

English

Etymology

From Middle English greylyng, equivalent to gray +? -ling.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?l??

Noun

grayling (plural grayling or graylings)

1. Any freshwater fish of the genus Thymallus or specifically Thymallus thymallus, of the salmon family, having a large dorsal fin.
2. Other similar fish
   1. Thymallus arcticus (Arctic grayling)
   2. Salmo salar (Atlantic salmon)
   3. Prototroctes spp. (Retropinnidae)
      1. Prototroctes maraena (Australian grayling)
      2. Prototroctes oxyrhynchus (New Zealand grayling)
3. A species of butterfly, Hipparchia semele, of the family Nymphalidae.
4. Other butterflies of genus Hipparchia.
5. Cercyonis pegala (common wood-nymph)

Translations

References

• grayling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Grayling (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Thymallus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Hipparchia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• ragingly

English

Alternative forms

• umbre (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French ombre (“umber”), from terre d'ombre (“dark ochre”), from Old French umbre (“shade, shadow”), from Latin umbra. Doublet of umbra.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??mb?/
• (General American) enPR: ?m?b?r, IPA^(key): /??mb?/
• Rhymes: -?mb?(?)
• Hyphenation: um?ber

Noun

umber (plural umbers)

1. A brown clay, somewhat darker than ochre, which contains iron and manganese oxides.

2. Alternative form of umbrere
3. A grayling.
4. A dusky brown African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the shoebill and herons; a hamerkop.

Translations

Adjective

umber (not comparable)

1. Of a reddish brown colour, like that of the pigment.
   • 1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay

     Their harps are of the umber shade / That hides the blush of waking day.

Translations

Verb

umber (third-person singular simple present umbers, present participle umbering, simple past and past participle umbered)

1. (transitive) To give a reddish-brown colour to.
   • 1807, Charles Hoyle, Exodus

     Armies o'er armies heap'd, the locusts came,
     Like clouds in autumn umbering all the sky […]

Derived terms

• burnt umber
• mottled umber
• umber moth

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Anagrams

• brume, umbre

Latin

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?um.ber/, [??mb?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?um.ber/, [?umb?r]

Noun

umber m (genitive umbr?); second declension

1. a kind of sheep

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

References

• umber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Manx

Etymology

Borrowed from English umber.

Noun

umber m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. umber