umber
See also: ümber
English
editAlternative forms
edit- umbre (obsolete)
Etymology
editFrom Middle French ombre (“umber”), from terre d'ombre (“dark ochre”), from Old French umbre (“shade, shadow”), from Latin umbra. Doublet of umbra.
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈʌmbə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American) enPR: ŭmʹbər, IPA(key): /ˈʌmbɚ/
- Rhymes: -ʌmbə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: um‧ber
Noun
editumber (countable and uncountable, plural umbers)
- A brown clay, somewhat darker than ochre, which contains iron and manganese oxides.
- umber:
- c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], lines 518-21:
- I'll put myself in poor and mean attire,
And with a kind of umber smirch my face;
The like do you; so shall we pass along,
And never stir assailants.
- Alternative form of umbrere
- A grayling.
- A dusky brown African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the shoebill and herons; a hamerkop.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editbrown clay
colour
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grayling — see grayling
Scopus umbretta
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Adjective
editumber (not comparable)
- Of a reddish brown colour, like that of the pigment.
- 1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay:
- Their harps are of the umber shade / That hides the blush of waking day.
Translations
editVerb
editumber (third-person singular simple present umbers, present participle umbering, simple past and past participle umbered)
- (transitive) To give a reddish-brown colour to.
- 1807, Charles Hoyle, Exodus:
- Armies o'er armies heap'd, the locusts came,
Like clouds in autumn umbering all the sky […]
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editLatin
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈum.ber/, [ˈʊmbɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈum.ber/, [ˈumber]
Adjective
editumber (feminine umbra, neuter umbrum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)
Declension
editFirst/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | umber | umbra | umbrum | umbrī | umbrae | umbra | |
Genitive | umbrī | umbrae | umbrī | umbrōrum | umbrārum | umbrōrum | |
Dative | umbrō | umbrō | umbrīs | ||||
Accusative | umbrum | umbram | umbrum | umbrōs | umbrās | umbra | |
Ablative | umbrō | umbrā | umbrō | umbrīs | |||
Vocative | umber | umbra | umbrum | umbrī | umbrae | umbra |
Noun
editumber m (genitive umbrī); second declension
Declension
editSecond-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | umber | umbrī |
Genitive | umbrī | umbrōrum |
Dative | umbrō | umbrīs |
Accusative | umbrum | umbrōs |
Ablative | umbrō | umbrīs |
Vocative | umber | umbrī |
References
edit- umber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Vmber” on page 2087/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
Manx
editEtymology
editNoun
editumber m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])
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