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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

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

Pronunciation

Noun

umbo (ma class, plural maumbo)

1. shape (appearance or outline)

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d???mb??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d???mbo?/
• Rhymes: -?mb??
• Hyphenation: jum?bo

Etymology 1

From Jumbo (1860–1885), the name given to a large African elephant from East Africa that was purchased in 1882 by American showman P. T. Barnum (1810–1891) for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Compare Swahili jambo (“matter, thing”) and jumbe (“chief, headman”).

Adjective

jumbo (not comparable)

1. Especially large or powerful.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

jumbo (plural jumbos)

1. An especially large or powerful person, animal, or thing.
2. (engineering) A platform-mounted machine for drilling rock.

   Synonym: drilling jumbo

Translations

See also

• Jumbomania

Etymology 2

From (mumbo) jumbo.

Noun

jumbo (plural jumbos)

1. (paganism, historical) Short for mumbo jumbo (“a deity or other supernatural being worshipped by certain West African peoples; an idol representing such a being”).

Further reading

• drilling jumbo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Jumbo (elephant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• jumbo (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?jumbo/, [?jumbo?]
• Rhymes: -umbo
• Syllabification: jum?bo

Etymology 1

After the circus elephant of the same name, as elephants are considered slow. A similar expression is found in Swedish jumbo. For the origin of the name, see English jumbo.

Noun

jumbo (not comparable)

1. (informal) last, last one, especially in a competition

Declension

Synonyms

• viimeinen

Compounds

• jumbofinaali
• jumbosija

Etymology 2

From English jumbo, from the same origin as above.

Noun

jumbo

1. jumbo jet
2. Short for porausjumbo (drilling jumbo).
3. (as modifier) very large

Declension

Synonyms

• (jumbojet): jumbojetti

Compounds

• jumbojetti
• jumbokoko
• jumbokokoinen

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English jumbo ("An especially large or powerful person, animal or thing").

Noun

jumbo m (definite singular jumboen, indefinite plural jumboer, definite plural jumboene)

1. a person or team that finishes last (in competitions)

Derived terms

• jumboplass

References

• “jumbo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “jumbo” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English jumbo ("An especially large or powerful person, animal or thing").

Noun

jumbo m (definite singular jumboen, indefinite plural jumboar, definite plural jumboane)

1. a person or team that finishes last (in competitions)

Derived terms

• jumboplass

References

• “jumbo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.