ombre

See also: ombré and Ombre

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French hombre, from Spanish hombre, literally, a man, from Latin homo. Doublet of hombre, homo, and gome. See human.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɒm.bə/, /ˈɒm.bɹeɪ/
• Rhymes: -ɒmbə, -ɒmbɹeɪ

Noun

ombre (uncountable)

1. A Spanish card game, usually played by three people. It involves forty cards, omitting the ranks of 8, 9 and 10.
   • 1712 May, [Alexander Pope], “The Rape of the Locke. An Heroi-comical Poem.”, in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, canto:

     Belinda now, whom chirst of fame invites, / Burns to encounter two advent'rous Knights, / At Ombre singly to decide their doom / And swells her breast with conquests yet to com

   • 1725–1728, [Edward Young], “(please specify the page)”, in Love of Fame, the Universal Passion. In Seven Characteristical Satires, 4th edition, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson […], published 1741, →OCLC:

     When ombre calls, his hand and heart are free, / And, joined to two, he fails not to make three.

Translations

Translations

• French: hombre (fr) m
• Spanish: hombre (es) m

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “French ombre?”)

Noun

ombre (plural ombres)

1. (archaic) A large Mediterranean food fish, Umbrina cirrosa

   Synonyms: shi drum, gurbell, sea crow, bearded umbrine, corb

Synonyms

• umbra, umbrine

Etymology 3

Borrowed from French ombre (“shade”). Doublet of umber.

Noun

ombre (plural ombres)

2. (colors) A gradual blending of one color hue to another, usually moving tints and shades from light to dark.

Related terms

• ombré
• ombrée

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ombre”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• B-more, Bomer, brome, omber

Aragonese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈombɾe/
• Rhymes: -ombɾe
• Syllabification: om‧bre

Noun

ombre m (plural ombres)

1. Alternative spelling of hombre (“man”)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̃bʁ/

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• Homophones: hombre, hombres, ombres, ombrent

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French onbre, ombre, from Latin umbra, probably from Old Latin *omra, possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *h₂mr-u-, *h₂mrup-.

Noun

ombre f (plural ombres)

1. shade, shadow
2. darkness
3. ghost

Derived terms

• à l’ombre
• dans l’ombre
• être l’ombre de quelqu’un
• faire de l’ombre
• lâcher la proie pour l’ombre
• ombrage
• ombrelle
• ombrer
• ombreux
• porter ombrage
• sans l’ombre d’un doute
• se battre contre son ombre
• sombre
• sortir de l’ombre
• suivre quelqu’un comme son ombre

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

ombre

1. inflection of ombrer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Etymology 3

From Latin umbra (“drumfish”), probably the same etymon as under etymology 1 above.

Noun

ombre m (plural ombres)

1. (Ichthyology) a fish of Osteichthyes of the freshwater family Salmonidae, of the genus Thymallus

   Synonyms: corp, thymalle

Further reading

• “ombre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• brome

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin umbra.

Noun

ombre f (plural ombris)

1. shadow
2. shade

Related terms

• ombrî
• ombrôs

Galician

Etymology

From Latin umbra.

Noun

ombre f (plural ombres)

1. shadow
2. shade

Related terms

• sombra
• sôma

Italian

Noun

ombre f

1. plural of ombra

Ladino

Etymology

From Old Spanish, from Latin homo, hominem.

Noun

ombre m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling אומברי)

1. man

Norman

Etymology

From Old French onbre, from Latin umbra.

Noun

ombre f (plural ombres)

1. shadow (poorly lit area)

Old French

Noun

ombre oblique singular, f (oblique plural ombres, nominative singular ombre, nominative plural ombres)

1. Alternative form of onbre

Spanish

Noun

ombre m (plural ombres)

1. Obsolete spelling of hombre

Venetian

Noun

ombre

1. plural of ombra