different between umbo vs gumbo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin umb? (“a shield boss”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??m.b??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??m.bo?/
• Rhymes: -?mb??

Noun

umbo (plural umbones or umbos or umboes)

1. (historical) The boss of a shield, at or near the middle and usually projecting, sometimes in a sharp spike.
2. (biology) A boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane.
   1. (anatomy) An inward projection of the tympanic membrane of the ear.
   2. (zoology) One of the lateral prominences just above the hinge of a bivalve shell.
   3. (mycology) A bump or protrusion on the cap of a mushroom or toadstool.

Derived terms

• umbonal
• umbonic

References

• “umbo”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “umbo”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

See also

• boss

Anagrams

• ombu

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h?émb?-on- ~ *h?m?b?-n-és, from the root *h?m?b?- (“navel; nave, hub”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *ambô (“belly; paunch”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?um.bo?/, [??mbo?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?um.bo/, [?umb?]

Noun

umb? m (genitive umb?nis); third declension

1. boss (of a shield etc.)
2. elbow (or similar projecting part)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

• umbilicus

Descendants

• ? Translingual: Umbonium (generic name)
• ? English: umbo
• Italian: umbone

References

• umbo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• umbo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• umbo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• umbo in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• umbo in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Swahili

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

umbo (ma class, plural maumbo)

1. shape (appearance or outline)

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Louisiana French gombo, ultimately from Kimbundu (k)ingombo (“okra”); compare Portuguese quingombó.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?mb??

Noun

gumbo (countable and uncountable, plural gumbos)

1. (countable) Synonym of okra: the plant or its edible capsules.
2. (uncountable) A soup or stew made with okra.
3. (uncountable) A fine silty soil that when wet becomes very thick and heavy.
   • 1909, Ralph Connor, The Foreigner, ch. 11:

     The team stuck fast in the black muck, and every effort to extricate them served only to imbed them more hopelessly in the sticky gumbo.

   • 1914 April, "Making Good Roads by Firing Poor Ones," Popular Mechanics, p. 567:

     There are no poorer roads in all the United States than the "gumbo" roads of the south—gumbo being the name give a certain kind of mud or clay that is particularly sticky, clings tenaciously, seems to have no bottom, and will not support any weight.

   • 1950 July 3, "Labor: Trouble at Lowland," Time:

     The red gumbo soil uttered ugly sucking sounds at the touch of a man's boot.

References

Kalanga

Noun

gumbo

1.  (anatomy) foot

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

gumbo

1. nominative singular of gumba (“swarm”)