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umber
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)
- A brown clay, somewhat darker than ochre, which contains iron and manganese oxides.
- Alternative form of umbrere
- A grayling.
- A dusky brown African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the shoebill and herons; a hamerkop.
Translations
Adjective
umber (not comparable)
- 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.
- 1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay
Translations
Verb
umber (third-person singular simple present umbers, present participle umbering, simple past and past participle umbered)
- (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 […]
- Armies o'er armies heap'd, the locusts came,
- 1807, Charles Hoyle, Exodus
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
- 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])
- umber
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umbel
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin umbella (“umbrella”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?mb?l
Noun
umbel (plural umbels)
- (botany) A flat-topped or rounded flower-cluster (= inflorescence) in which the individual flower stalks arise from the same point, the youngest flowers being at the centre.
Related terms
- umbellaster
- umbellet
- umbellule
- Umbelliferae
- umbelliferous
Translations
Anagrams
- 'umble, Blume
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