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hombre

English

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WOTD – 16 September 2017

Etymology

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A sombrero-wearing mariachi singer in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

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”). Doublet of gome, homo, ombre, and omi.

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Noun

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hombre (plural hombres)

  1. (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[sic] 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.
    • 2016, Lawrence Winkler, “Bajada”, in Orion’s Cartwheel (Cartwheels Quadrilogy; 1), Victoria, B.C.: First Choice Books, →ISBN, page 22:
      There was a pause I didn't like, punctuated by shrieks of shrill laughter from the hombres at the bar. Only Mexicans can laugh like that.

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Aragonese

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Aragonese Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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From Old Navarro-Aragonese hombre~home, from Latin hominem.

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Noun

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hombre m (plural hombres)

  1. man
  2. a 17th-century Spanish card game (c. 1650-1660), usually played by three persons with a pack of 40 cards.
    the lone player in this game undertaking to win the pool against two defenders.

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  • “hombre”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

French

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Noun

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hombre m (plural hombres)

  1. a kind of card game from Spain

Descendants

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  • → English: ombre

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Old Navarro-Aragonese

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin hominem.

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Noun

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hombre m (plural hombres)

  1. 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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  1. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20150927153309/http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObras/bne/12937401998072638532624/ima0008.htm

Further reading

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  • 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

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Etymology

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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 hembra and nombre.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈombɾe/ [ˈõm.bɾe]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ombɾe
  • Syllabification: hom‧bre

Noun

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hombre m (plural hombres)

  1. man, (adult male human)
    Synonyms: caballero, señor
    Antonym: mujer
    Sé (un) hombre! ― Man up!
  2. man, (all humans collectively); mankind, humankind
    Synonym: ser humano
  3. (anthropology, archaeology, paleontology) man, (individual of the species Homo sapiens, the genus Homo, or the subtribe Hominina)
    Synonyms: humano, persona
  4. (colloquial) husband
    Synonym: marido
  5. (gay slang) top
    Synonym: activo
  6. ombre (Spanish card game)

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Interjection

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¡hombre!

  1. man!
  2. hey!
  3. oh, come on!

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