nombril
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
French nombril, for Old French lombril, i. e., ombril, with the article, a diminutive from Latin umbilicus the navel. See navel.
Noun[edit]
nombril (plural nombrils)
- (heraldry) A point halfway between the fess point and the middle base point of an escutcheon.
Synonyms[edit]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French nonbril, from Vulgar Latin *umbiliculus, from Latin umbilicus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nobʰilos (“navel”). The initial n is probably due to interference from the indefinite article, un onbril → un nonbril.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
nombril m (plural nombrils)
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Middle French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French nonbril, from Vulgar Latin *umbiliculus, from Latin umbilicus.
Noun[edit]
nombril m (plural nombrils)
- English terms derived from French
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English nouns
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- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- French terms derived from Latin
- French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- French nouns
- French masculine nouns
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- Middle French terms derived from Old French
- Middle French terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Middle French terms derived from Latin
- Middle French nouns
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