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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

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