adumbrate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adumbrātus (“represented in outline”), from adumbrāre (“cast a shadow on”), from umbra (“shadow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈædʌmˌbɹeɪt/

Verb

1. To foreshadow vaguely.
2. To give a vague outline.
   • 1996, John M. Cooper, "Introduction" in Plato: Complete Works, Hackett, p. xxii:

     Accordingly, even though readers always and understandably speak of the theories adumbrated by Socrates here as "Plato's theories", one ought not to speak of them so without some compunction--the writing itself, and also Plato the author, present these always in a spirit of open-ended exploration, and sometimes there are contextual clues indicating that Socrates exaggerates or goes what the argument truly justifies, and so on.

3. To obscure or overshadow.

Derived terms

• adumbrant
• adumbration
• adumbrative

Related terms

• See umbra#Derived_terms

Translations

To foreshadow vaguely.

• Interlingue:
• Japanese: ぼんやりと暗示する (bonyarito anji suru), 予示する (yoji suru)
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• Malay:

  Jawi: مڠعلامتکن

  Rumi: mengalamatkan

To give a vague outline.

• Czech: nastínit
• Dutch: de contouren vluchtig schetsen
• German: umreißen (de)
• Interlingue:
• Japanese: 概説する (gaisetsu suru)
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• Malay:

  Jawi: ممبايڠکن

  Rumi: membayangkan

• Portuguese: adumbrar

To obscure or overshadow.

• Dutch: overschaduwen (nl)
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• Japanese: 暗くする (kuraku suru)

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /a.dumˈbraː.te/, [äd̪ʊmˈbräːt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.dumˈbra.te/, [äd̪umˈbräːt̪e]

Verb

(deprecated template usage) adumbrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of adumbrō