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English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French hombre, from Spanish hombre, literally, a man, from Latin homo. Doublet of hombre. See human.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m.b?/, /??m.b?e?/

Noun

ombre (uncountable)

1. A Spanish card game, usually played by three people. It involves forty cards, omitting the ranks of 8, 9 and 10.

   • Belinda now, whom chirst of fame invites,
     Burns to encounter two advent'rous Knights,
     At Ombre singly to decide their doom
     And swells her breast with conquests yet to com

   • 1728, Edward Young, The Love of Fame

     When ombre calls, his hand and heart are free, / And, joined to two, he fails not to make three.

Translations

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “French ombre?”)

Noun

ombre (plural ombres)

1. (archaic) A large Mediterranean food fish Umbrina cirrosa

Synonyms

• umbra, umbrine

Etymology 3

Borrowed from French ombre ("shade"). Doublet of umber.

Noun

ombre (plural ombres)

1. (colors) A gradual blending of one color hue to another, usually moving tints and shades from light to dark.

Related terms

• ombré
• ombrée

Anagrams

• B-more, brome, omber

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin homo, hominem.

Noun

ombre m (plural ombres)

1. man
2. a 17th-century Spanish card game (c. 1650-1660), usually played by three persons with a pack of 40 cards.
3. the lone player in this game undertaking to win the pool against two defenders.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??b?/
• Homophones: hombre, hombres, ombres, ombrent

Etymology 1

From Old French ombre, onbre, from Latin umbra, probably from Old Latin *omra, possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *h?mr-u-, *h?mrup-.

Noun

ombre f (plural ombres)

1. shade, shadow
2. darkness
3. ghost

Derived terms

Related terms

Verb

ombre

1. first-person singular present indicative of ombrer
2. third-person singular present indicative of ombrer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of ombrer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of ombrer
5. second-person singular imperative of ombrer

Etymology 2

Latin umbra (“drumfish”), probably the same etymon as above.

Noun

ombre m (plural ombres)

1. (Ichthyology) A fish of Osteichthyes of the freshwater family Salmonidae, of the genus Thymallus.

Synonyms

• corp
• thymalle

Anagrams

• brome

Further reading

• “ombre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin umbra.

Noun

ombre f (plural ombris)

1. shadow
2. shade

Related terms

• ombrî
• ombrôs

Galician

Etymology

From Latin umbra.

Noun

ombre f (plural ombres)

1. shadow
2. shade

Related terms

• sombra
• sôma

Italian

Noun

ombre f

1. plural of ombra

Ladino

Etymology

From Old Spanish, from Latin homo, hominem.

Noun

ombre m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ???????)

1. man

Norman

Etymology

From Old French onbre, from Latin umbra.

Noun

ombre f (plural ombres)

1. shadow (poorly lit area)

Old French

Noun

ombre f (oblique plural ombres, nominative singular ombre, nominative plural ombres)

1. Alternative form of onbre

Spanish

Noun

ombre m (plural ombres)

1. Obsolete spelling of hombre

Venetian

Noun

ombre

1. plural of ombra

English

Noun

omber (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of ombre

Anagrams

• B-more, brome, ombre