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umbra

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin umbra (shadow). Doublet of umber.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: ?m?br?, IPA(key): /??mb??/
  • Rhymes: -?mb??
  • Hyphenation: um?bra

Noun

umbra (plural umbras or umbrae)

  1. The fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object.
    1. (astronomy) The area on the earth or moon experiencing the total phase of an eclipse.
  2. (astronomy) The central region of a sunspot.
  3. (chiefly literary) A shadow.
  4. (archaic) An uninvited guest brought along by one who was invited.
  5. One of the family Umbridae of mudminnows.
  6. A sciaenoid fish, the umbrine.

Coordinate terms

  • antumbra
  • penumbra

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

  • Burma, rumba

Catalan

Noun

umbra f (plural umbres)

  1. female equivalent of umbre

Adjective

umbra

  1. feminine singular of umbre

Danish

Etymology

From Latin umbra (shadow).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?mbra/, [??mb???]

Noun

umbra c (singular definite umbraen, not used in plural form)

  1. umber (pigment, colour)
  2. (as an adjective) umber (of a reddish brown colour)

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?umbr?/, [?umbr?]
  • Rhymes: -umbr?
  • Syllabification: umb?ra

Noun

umbra

  1. umbra

Declension

Synonyms

  • (part of a shadow): täysvarjo

Anagrams

  • Burma, burma, rumba

Interlingua

Etymology

From Latin.

Noun

umbra (plural umbras)

  1. shadow

Italian

Adjective

umbra

  1. feminine singular of umbro

Noun

umbra f (plural umbre)

  1. female equivalent of umbro

Anagrams

  • bruma, rumba

Latin

Etymology

If from Old Latin *omra, possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *h?mr-u-, *h?mrup-; related to Ancient Greek ??????? (amaurós, dark), Luwian ???????????????????? (rot), and ???????????????? (rotten) (also see Hittite Maraššantiya, their name for the K?z?l?rmak River), and this Indo-European source is said to be a possible borrowing from a Semitic root ?-m-r (be red), compare Arabic ? ? ?? (? m r).

Generally connected with Lithuanian unksna.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /?um.bra/, [??mb?ä]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?um.bra/, [?umb??]

Noun

umbra f (genitive umbrae); first declension

  1. a shadow
  2. a shade
  3. a ghost

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • umbr?ti?

Descendants

References

  • umbra in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • umbra in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • umbra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • umbra in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)?[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin umbra (shade, shadow).

Noun

umbra m (definite singular umbraen, indefinite plural umbraer or umbraar, definite plural umbraene or umbraane)

  1. (chemistry)
  2. a dark earthy colour
  3. (astronomy) the shade from a planet
  4. (astronomy, by extension) central region of a sunspot

References

  • “umbra” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Noun

umbra f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of umbr?

Spanish

Adjective

umbra f

  1. feminine singular of umbro

Noun

umbra f (plural umbras, masculine umbro, masculine plural umbros)

  1. female equivalent of umbro

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antumbra

English

Etymology

ante- (before) +? umbra (shadow)

Noun

antumbra

  1. (rare) The region from which an occulting body appears entirely contained within the disc of the light source.

Related terms

  • See umbra#Derived_terms

Anagrams

  • rambutan

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