different between umbre vs umber

English

Adjective

umbre (comparative more umbre, superlative most umbre)

1. Obsolete form of umber.

Noun

umbre (countable and uncountable, plural umbres)

1. Obsolete form of umber.

Anagrams

• brume, umber

Catalan

Adjective

umbre (feminine umbra, masculine and feminine plural umbres)

1. Umbrian

Synonyms

• úmbric

Noun

umbre m (plural umbres, feminine umbra)

1. Umbrian (person)

umbre m (uncountable)

1. Umbrian (language)

Related terms

• Úmbria

Italian

Adjective

umbre

1. feminine plural of umbro

Noun

umbre f

1. plural of umbra

Anagrams

• brume, rumbe

Middle French

Etymology

Old French, respelled to more closely match the Latin umbra.

Noun

umbre f (plural umbres)

1. shadow

Descendants

• French: ombre

Old French

Noun

umbre f (oblique plural umbres, nominative singular umbre, nominative plural umbres)

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of onbre

English

Alternative forms

• umbre (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French ombre (“umber”), from terre d'ombre (“dark ochre”), from Old French umbre (“shade, shadow”), from Latin umbra. Doublet of umbra.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??mb?/
• (General American) enPR: ?m?b?r, IPA^(key): /??mb?/
• Rhymes: -?mb?(?)
• Hyphenation: um?ber

Noun

umber (plural umbers)

1. A brown clay, somewhat darker than ochre, which contains iron and manganese oxides.

2. Alternative form of umbrere
3. A grayling.
4. A dusky brown African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the shoebill and herons; a hamerkop.

Translations

Adjective

umber (not comparable)

1. Of a reddish brown colour, like that of the pigment.
   • 1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay

     Their harps are of the umber shade / That hides the blush of waking day.

Translations

Verb

umber (third-person singular simple present umbers, present participle umbering, simple past and past participle umbered)

1. (transitive) To give a reddish-brown colour to.
   • 1807, Charles Hoyle, Exodus

     Armies o'er armies heap'd, the locusts came,
     Like clouds in autumn umbering all the sky […]

Derived terms

• burnt umber
• mottled umber
• umber moth

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Anagrams

• brume, umbre

Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?um.ber/, [??mb?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?um.ber/, [?umb?r]

Noun

umber m (genitive umbr?); second declension

1. a kind of sheep

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

References

• umber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Manx

Etymology

Borrowed from English umber.

Noun

umber m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. umber