different between umbrage vs umbrella

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

Alternative forms

• humbrella (archaic)
• ombrella (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian ombrella, umbrella (“parasol, sunshade”), dim. of ombra (“shade”) (or from a Late Latin or Medieval Latin umbrella), from Latin umbra (“shadow”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?m?b??l?/
• (Southern American English) IPA^(key): /??mb??l?/
• Rhymes: -?l?

Noun

umbrella (plural umbrellas)

1. Cloth-covered frame used for protection against rain or sun.

   • There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
2. Generally, anything that provides protection.

3. Something that covers a wide range of concepts, purposes, groups, etc.

4. The main body of a jellyfish, excluding the tentacles.

5. (photography, television) An umbrella-shaped reflector with a white or silvery inner surface, used to diffuse a nearby light.
   • 2014, Michael Allen, Modern Wedding Photography (page 97)

     Using umbrellas for shooting a wedding party is ok, but not necessary.

Synonyms

• bumbershoot, umbershoot (both US slang)
• brolly (colloquial)
• gamp (dated, colloquial)
• parasol
• rain napper (UK, slang, obsolete)
• rainshade

Derived terms

Related terms

• See umbra#Derived_terms
• sunshade

Translations

See also

• awning
• bumbershoot
• gamp
• parasol
• shield

Descendants

• ? Welsh: ymbarél

Further reading

• umbrella in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• umbrella in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Verb

umbrella (third-person singular simple present umbrellas, present participle umbrellaing, simple past and past participle umbrellaed)

1. (transitive) To cover or protect, as if by an umbrella.
   • 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, “Life Loves Living,”^[1]

     Experts with saws and ladders came and lopped off the lower branches. This sent the tree's growth rushing violently to her head in a lush overhanging which umbrellaed the House of All Sorts.
2. (intransitive) To form the dome shape of an open umbrella.
3. (intransitive) To move like a jellyfish.

Anagrams

• umbellar

Maltese

Etymology

Either from English umbrella or from regional Sicilian umbrellu, umbriellu. The final -a points to English (but compare Italian ombrella alongside ombrello). The pronunciation in turn is entirely Romance, meaning that if it is English it must be an early borrowing with a spelling pronunciation (we would now expect *ambrela). Compare also the Semitic plural.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /um?br?lla/

Noun

umbrella f (plural umbrelel)

1. umbrella

Romansch

Noun

umbrella f (plural umbrellas)

1. (Surmiran, Vallader) umbrella, parasol

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun) paraplievgia
• (Puter) paraplövgia
• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter) parisol
• (Sutsilvan) prisol
• (Vallader) parasul