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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

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French hombre, from Spanish hombre, literally, a man, from Latin homo. Doublet of hombre. See human.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m.b?/, /??m.b?e?/

Noun

ombre (uncountable)

1. A Spanish card game, usually played by three people. It involves forty cards, omitting the ranks of 8, 9 and 10.

   • Belinda now, whom chirst of fame invites,
     Burns to encounter two advent'rous Knights,
     At Ombre singly to decide their doom
     And swells her breast with conquests yet to com

   • 1728, Edward Young, The Love of Fame

     When ombre calls, his hand and heart are free, / And, joined to two, he fails not to make three.

Translations

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “French ombre?”)

Noun

ombre (plural ombres)

1. (archaic) A large Mediterranean food fish Umbrina cirrosa

Synonyms

• umbra, umbrine

Etymology 3

Borrowed from French ombre ("shade"). Doublet of umber.

Noun

ombre (plural ombres)

1. (colors) A gradual blending of one color hue to another, usually moving tints and shades from light to dark.

Related terms

• ombré
• ombrée

Anagrams

• B-more, brome, omber

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin homo, hominem.

Noun

ombre m (plural ombres)

1. man
2. a 17th-century Spanish card game (c. 1650-1660), usually played by three persons with a pack of 40 cards.
3. the lone player in this game undertaking to win the pool against two defenders.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??b?/
• Homophones: hombre, hombres, ombres, ombrent

Etymology 1

From Old French ombre, onbre, from Latin umbra, probably from Old Latin *omra, possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *h?mr-u-, *h?mrup-.

Noun

ombre f (plural ombres)

1. shade, shadow
2. darkness
3. ghost

Derived terms

Related terms

Verb

ombre

1. first-person singular present indicative of ombrer
2. third-person singular present indicative of ombrer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of ombrer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of ombrer
5. second-person singular imperative of ombrer

Etymology 2

Latin umbra (“drumfish”), probably the same etymon as above.

Noun

ombre m (plural ombres)

1. (Ichthyology) A fish of Osteichthyes of the freshwater family Salmonidae, of the genus Thymallus.

Synonyms

• corp
• thymalle

Anagrams

• brome

Further reading

• “ombre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin umbra.

Noun

ombre f (plural ombris)

1. shadow
2. shade

Related terms

• ombrî
• ombrôs

Galician

Etymology

From Latin umbra.

Noun

ombre f (plural ombres)

1. shadow
2. shade

Related terms

• sombra
• sôma

Italian

Noun

ombre f

1. plural of ombra

Ladino

Etymology

From Old Spanish, from Latin homo, hominem.

Noun

ombre m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ???????)

1. man

Norman

Etymology

From Old French onbre, from Latin umbra.

Noun

ombre f (plural ombres)

1. shadow (poorly lit area)

Old French

Noun

ombre f (oblique plural ombres, nominative singular ombre, nominative plural ombres)

1. Alternative form of onbre

Spanish

Noun

ombre m (plural ombres)

1. Obsolete spelling of hombre

Venetian

Noun

ombre

1. plural of ombra