hombre
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Spanish hombre (“man; human being”), from Old Spanish omne, from Latin hominem, accusative of homō (“a human being, a person”), from Old Latin hemō, from Proto-Italic *hemō (“man”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ (“earthling”), from *dʰéǵʰōm (“earth”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɒmbɹeɪ/, /-bɹi/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɑmbɹeɪ/, /ˈʌmbɹeɪ/, /-bɹi/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Hyphenation: hom‧bre
Noun[edit]
hombre (plural hombres)
- (chiefly US, in Spanish-speaking contexts, slang) A man, a chap, a guy; especially a Hispanic or Spanish man.
- He's one tough hombre.
- c. 1850, [Thomas] Mayne Reid, “A Group of Jarochos”, in The Guerilla Chief, and Other Tales, London: C. H. Clarke, 13, Paternoster Row, OCLC 248586966, page 62:
- [W]e're glad to learn that the Yankee bullet has not quite stopped your breath. You're all right, hombre!
- 1852 March 8, E. P., “Golden Correspondence.—No. 1”, in J[oseph] M. Church, editor, Church’s Bizarre. For Fireside and Wayside, volume I, number 1 (New Series), Philadelphia, Pa.: Church & Co., 140 Chestnut Street, published 17 April 1852, OCLC 667127446, page 9, column 2:
- That hombre now with the worn out hat, tattered shirt, and fragmentary breeches, wears a sword. Bless you, his dignity would suffer greatly without it!
- 2010, Jon Sharpe [pseudonym], chapter 1, in Rocky Mountain Revenge (The Trailsman; no. 342), New York, N.Y.: Signet Books, New American Library, →ISBN:
- The foreman. As tough an hombre who ever lived. If Mr. Bell had sent Jackson instead of me, he'd take your rifle and beat you half to death with it.
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Aragonese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Navarro-Aragonese hombre (“man”), from Latin homo, hominem (“man”).
Noun[edit]
hombre m
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
hombre m (plural hombres)
Descendants[edit]
- → English: ombre
Further reading[edit]
- “hombre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Etymology[edit]
From Latin homo, hominem (“man”).
Noun[edit]
hombre m
- man
- SEGVNT QVE HAVE mos ſeydo en muytos liuros el primo hombŕ q̃ se poblo en España hauia nombre Tubaſ .del qual yxio la geuacon dlos ybers . [1]
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Etymology[edit]
From Old Spanish omne, from Latin homo, hominem, from Old Latin hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ (“earthling”). Cognate with Portuguese homem, Catalan home, French homme, Italian uomo. The Old Spanish form omne was first dissimilated to omre and then a gliding sound -b- arose before the -r-. Compare the same development in hambre.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
hombre m (plural hombres)
- man, (adult male human)
- man, (all humans collectively); mankind, humankind
- Synonym: ser humano
- (anthropology, archaeology, paleontology) man, (individual of the species Homo sapiens, the genus Homo, or the subtribe Hominina)
- (colloquial) husband
- Synonym: marido
- (gay slang) top
- Synonym: activo
- a 17th century card game also called ombre
Derived terms[edit]
(diminutive hombrecillo or hombrecito) (augmentative hombretón)
- abominable hombre de las nieves
- hombre de Dios
- hombre de guerra
- hombre de jengibre
- hombre de letras
- hombre del mundo
- hombre del tiempo
- hombre de negocios
- hombre de paja
- hombre de pelo en pecho
- hombre gamba
- hombre lobo
- hombre muerto
- hombre orquesta
- hombre prevenido vale por dos
- hombre rana
- hombre trans
- matahombres
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Descendants[edit]
Interjection[edit]
¡hombre!
Further reading[edit]
- “hombre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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