numbre

English

Noun

numbre (plural numbres)

1. Obsolete spelling of number.
   • 1858, Willam Cantuar, Archæologia Cantiana, volume I, page 37:

     Also I advertise you, that one Sher’ Thursday last, I was secretly informyd, that a gret numbre of yomen of the countrey woll shortely com to me, to desier me to be a meane for thaym to the Kinges grace, to have thair loone money agayne.

Anagrams

• number, renumb

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

numbre

1. Alternative form of nombre

Etymology 2

Verb

numbre

1. Alternative form of nombren

Old French

Noun

numbre oblique singular, m (oblique plural numbres, nominative singular numbres, nominative plural numbre)

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of nonbre

Tetelcingo Nahuatl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish nombre.

Noun

numbre

1. name

   Synonym: itucö

References

• Brewer, Forrest, Brewer, Jean G. (1962) Vocabulario mexicano de Tetelcingo, Morelos: Castellano-mexicano, mexicano-castellano (Serie de vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 8)‎^[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en coordinación con la Secretaría de Educación Pública a través de la Dirección General de Internados de Enseñanza Primaria y Educación Indígena, published 1971, pages 69, 168