hombre
English Edit
Etymology Edit
Borrowed from Spanish hombre (“man; human being”), from Old Spanish omne, from Latin hominem, accusative of homō (“a human being, a person”), from Old Latin hemō, from Proto-Italic *hemō (“man”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ (“earthling”), from *dʰéǵʰōm (“earth”).
Pronunciation Edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɒmbɹeɪ/, /-bɹi/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɑmbɹeɪ/, /ˈʌmbɹeɪ/, /-bɹi/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒmbɹeɪ
- Hyphenation: hom‧bre
Noun Edit
hombre (plural hombres)
- (chiefly US, in Spanish-speaking contexts, slang) A man, a chap, a guy; especially a Hispanic or Spanish man.
- c. 1850, [Thomas] Mayne Reid, “A Group of Jarochos”, in The Guerilla Chief, and Other Tales, London: C. H. Clarke, 13, Paternoster Row, →OCLC, page 62:
- [W]e're glad to learn that the Yankee bullet has not quite stopped your breath. You're all right, hombre!
- 1852 March 8, E. P., “Golden Correspondence.—No. 1”, in J[oseph] M. Church, editor, Church’s Bizarre. For Fireside and Wayside, volume I, number 1 (New Series), Philadelphia, Pa.: Church & Co., 140 Chestnut Street, published 17 April 1852, →OCLC, page 9, column 2:
- That hombre now with the worn out hat, tattered shirt, and fragmentary breeches, wears a sword. Bless you, his dignity would suffer greatly without it!
- 2010, Jon Sharpe [pseudonym], chapter 1, in Rocky Mountain Revenge (The Trailsman; no. 342), New York, N.Y.: Signet Books, New American Library, →ISBN:
- The foreman. As tough an hombre who ever lived. If Mr. Bell had sent Jackson instead of me, he'd take your rifle and beat you half to death with it.
Further reading Edit
Aragonese Edit
Noun Edit
hombre m
French Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
hombre m (plural hombres)
Descendants Edit
- → English: ombre
Further reading Edit
- “hombre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Alternative forms Edit
Etymology Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
hombre m (plural hombres)
- man
- 14th c., Crónica de San Juan de la Peña:
- SEGVNT QVE HAVE / mos leydo en muytos liuros el primʳo hombŕ q̀ se poblo / en España hauia nombre Tubal, del qual yxio la ge- / na͡con d'los ybers.[1]
- As we have read in many books, the first man to settle in Spain was named Tubal, from whom issued the race of the Iberians.
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Further reading Edit
- Nagore Laín, Francho (2021) Vocabulario de la crónica de San Juan de la Peña (versión aragonesa, s. XIV), Zaragoza: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, page 268
Spanish Edit
Alternative forms Edit
Etymology Edit
Inherited from Old Spanish omne, from Latin hominem, homō, from Old Latin hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ (“earthling”). The Old Spanish form omne was first dissimilated to omre and then a gliding sound -b- arose before the -r-. Compare the same development in hambre and nombre.
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
hombre m (plural hombres)
- man, (adult male human)
- man, (all humans collectively); mankind, humankind
- Synonym: ser humano
- (anthropology, archaeology, paleontology) man, (individual of the species Homo sapiens, the genus Homo, or the subtribe Hominina)
- (colloquial) husband
- Synonym: marido
- (gay slang) top
- Synonym: activo
- a 17th century card game also called ombre
Derived terms Edit
(diminutive hombrecillo or hombrecito) (augmentative hombretón)
- abominable hombre de las nieves
- buen hombre
- como un solo hombre
- cuerpo de hombre
- de hombre a hombre
- Hijo del Hombre
- hombre al agua
- hombre bueno
- hombre con hombre
- hombre de armas
- hombre de barba
- hombre de Cromañón
- hombre de Dios
- hombre de guerra
- hombre de jengibre
- hombre de la bolsa
- hombre de la calle
- hombre de letras
- hombre de Neandertal
- hombre de negocios
- hombre de paja
- hombre de pelo en pecho
- hombre de punto
- hombre del mundo
- hombre del tiempo
- hombre gamba
- hombre lobo
- hombre muerto
- hombre orquesta
- hombre prevenido vale por dos
- hombre rana
- hombre trans
- juego del hombre
- matahombres
- pobre hombre
- por cuerpo de hombre
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Descendants Edit
Interjection Edit
¡hombre!
Further reading Edit
- “hombre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014