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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

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