umbo
See also: ụm bò
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin umbō (“a shield boss”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈʌm.bəʊ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈʌm.boʊ/
- Rhymes: -ʌmbəʊ
Noun edit
umbo (plural umbones or umbos or umboes)
- (historical) The boss of a shield, at or near the middle and usually projecting, sometimes in a sharp spike.
- 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page xii:
- It is thirteen inches diameter, made of wood covered with leather, and an iron plate decorated with nails and mouldings; the boss or umbo projects four inches.
- (biology) A boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane.
- (anatomy) An inward projection of the tympanic membrane of the ear.
- (zoology) One of the lateral prominences just above the hinge of a bivalve shell.
- (mycology) A bump or protrusion on the cap of a mushroom or toadstool.
Derived terms edit
See also edit
References edit
- “umbo”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “umbo”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *h₃émbʰ-on- ~ *h₃m̥bʰ-n-és, from the root *h₃m̥bʰ- (“navel; nave, hub”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *ambô (“belly; paunch”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈum.boː/, [ˈʊmboː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈum.bo/, [ˈumbo]
Noun edit
umbō m (genitive umbōnis); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | umbō | umbōnēs |
Genitive | umbōnis | umbōnum |
Dative | umbōnī | umbōnibus |
Accusative | umbōnem | umbōnēs |
Ablative | umbōne | umbōnibus |
Vocative | umbō | umbōnēs |
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- “umbo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “umbo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- umbo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “umbo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “umbo”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Swahili edit
Etymology edit
From -umba (“to create”).
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Kenya) (file)