different between umbrage vs choler

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French ombrage (“umbrage”), from Old French ombrage, from Latin umbr?ticus (“in the shade”), from umbra (“shadow, shade”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m.b??d?/

Noun

umbrage (countable and uncountable, plural umbrages)

1. A feeling of anger or annoyance caused by something offensive.

   Synonyms: annoyance, displeasure, odium, offense, resentment, huff, miff, peeve, pique
2. A feeling of doubt.

   Synonym: suspicion

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

3. Leaves that provide shade, as the foliage of trees.
4. (obsolete) Shadow; shade.
   • 1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act V scene 1

     [...] but in the verity of extolment I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.

Derived terms

• take umbrage
• umbrageous

Translations

Verb

umbrage (third-person singular simple present umbrages, present participle umbraging, simple past and past participle umbraged)

1. (transitive) To displease or cause offense.
2. (transitive) To shade.

Translations

Middle French

Noun

umbrage m (plural umbrages)

1. shadow

English

Etymology

From Middle English coler (“yellow bile”), from Old French colere (“bile, anger”), from Latin cholera (“bilious disease”), from Ancient Greek ???? (khol?, “bile”). Doublet of cholera.

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?'l?r
• Rhymes: -??l?(?)

Noun

choler (usually uncountable, plural cholers)

1. Anger or irritability.
2. One of the four humours of ancient physiology, also known as yellow bile.

Synonyms

Related terms

• cholera
• choleric

Translations

Anagrams

• orchel