different between umbrella vs umbraculiferous

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

From Latin umbraculum (“umbrella”), diminutive of umbra (“shade”) + -ferous.

Adjective

umbraculiferous (comparative more umbraculiferous, superlative most umbraculiferous)

1. (botany) Bearing something like an open umbrella.