different between umber vs cumber

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

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