nombre
AragoneseEdit
EtymologyEdit
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NounEdit
nombre m (plural nombres)
ReferencesEdit
- Bal Palazios, Santiago, “nombre”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, 2002, →ISBN
AsturianEdit
VerbEdit
nombre
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Occitan nombre, from Latin numerus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to assign, allot; take”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
nombre m (plural nombres)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
See alsoEdit
Further readingEdit
- “nombre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French nombre, nonbre, from Latin numerus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to assign, allot; take”). Doublet of numéro.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
nombre m (plural nombres)
Usage notesEdit
The word nombre refers to a quantity or a mathematical concept, e.g. a number of items in a set, real numbers, complex numbers, etc., while its doublet numéro refers to a label made of digits, e.g. a rank, a jersey number, a phone number or a winning lottery number.
Derived termsEdit
See alsoEdit
Further readingEdit
- “nombre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
LadinoEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Spanish nomne, nomre, from a Vulgar Latin *nōmine, from Latin nōmen,, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.
NounEdit
nombre m (Latin spelling)
Middle EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman noumbre and Old French nonbre, from Latin numerus (which some forms are influenced by).
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
nombre (plural nombres)
- A number; an entity used to describe quantity:
- A digit; a physical representation of a number.
- A counting; an enumeration or a figuring of a quantity.
- A set, group, or bunch; a quantity:
- The totality of a group; the entirety of a group.
- A large group; a multitude or bevy.
- A shape; a geometrical construction.
- Arithmetic; mathematics; the study of numbers.
- The concept of number in grammar.
- (rare) A list or an enumeration of items.
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “nǒmbre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-21.
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
nombre
- Alternative form of noumbren
OccitanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Occitan nombre, from Latin numerus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to assign, allot; take”).
NounEdit
nombre m (plural nombres)
Related termsEdit
Old FrenchEdit
NounEdit
nombre m (oblique plural nombres, nominative singular nombres, nominative plural nombre)
- Alternative form of nonbre
SpanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Alternative formsEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Spanish nomne, nomre, from a Vulgar Latin *nōmine, from Latin nōmen,[1], from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥. Compare English noun.
NounEdit
nombre m (plural nombres)
- name
- Hyponym: apellido
- ¿Cuál es tu nombre? ― What is your name?
- Mi nombre es ‘Carlos’. ― My name is ‘Carlos’.
- (grammar) noun
Usage notesEdit
In Spanish, it is more common to use llamarse (“to be called”) to indicate someone’s name:
- ¿Cómo te llamas? ― What is your name? (literally, “What do you call yourself?”)
- Me llamo Carlos. ― My name is Carlos. (literally, “I call myself Carlos.”)
Derived termsEdit
- (grammar): nombre sustantivo, nombre adjetivo, nombre propio, nombre común, nombre abstracto, nombre colectivo, nombre incontable, nombre numeral
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Papiamentu: nòmber
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
nombre
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of nombrar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of nombrar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of nombrar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of nombrar.
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A., Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, 1983–1991, →ISBN
Further readingEdit
- “nombre” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.