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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

English

Etymology

In the sense of a person, from Middle English calkelatour (“mathematician, astrologer”), borrowed from Latin calcul?tor, equivalent to calculate +? -or. The other meanings arose in Modern English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæl.kj?.le?.t?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kæl.kj?.le?.t??/, [?k?æ?.kj??le??.??]

Noun

calculator (plural calculators)

1. A mechanical or electronic device that performs mathematical calculations.
2. (dated) A person who performs mathematical calculation
3. A person who calculates (in the sense of scheming).
4. (obsolete) A set of mathematical tables.

Synonyms

• (electronic device): electronic calculator, pocket calculator
• (mechanical device): adding machine
• (person who performs mathematical calculations): computer (dated)
• (person who schemes): plotter, schemer
• (mathematical tables): ready reckoner, tables

Derived terms

• electronic calculator
• pocket calculator

Related terms

• calculate

Translations

See also

• ready reckoner
• slide rule
• tables
• calculator on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

References

• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928) , “Calculator”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume II (C), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, pages 27–28, column 3.

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: cal?cu?la?tor

Etymology

From English calculator.

Noun

calculator

1. calculator (device)

   Synonyms: calcu, kalkulador

Latin

Etymology

From calcul? (“I calculate”) +? -tor

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kal.ku?la?.tor/, [kä??k????ä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kal.ku?la.tor/, [k?lku?l??t??r]

Noun

calcul?tor m (genitive calcul?t?ris, feminine calcul?tr?x); third declension

1. calculator, bookkeeper, accountant
2. computer, one versed in/teacher of arithmetic

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Synonyms

• calcul?tr?x

Verb

calcul?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of calcul?
   1. "thou shalt be calculated, thou shalt be computed"
   2. (figuratively) "thou shalt be considered as, thou shalt be esteemed"
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of calcul?
   1. "it shall be calculated, it shall be computed"
   2. (figuratively) "she shall be considered as, she shall be esteemed"

References

• calculator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• calculator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• calculator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• calculator in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• calculator in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French calculateur; compare also English and Latin calculator.

Noun

calculator n (plural calculatoare)

1. calculator (device)
2. computer

   Synonyms: computer, ordinator

Declension