ombre

See also: ombré and Ombre

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French hombre, from Spanish hombre, literally, a man, from Latin homō. Doublet of gome, hombre, homo, and omi. See human.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɒm.bə/, /ˈɒm.bɹeɪ/

• Audio (General American); /ˈɒmbə/:

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• Audio (General American); /ˈɒmbreɪ/:

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• Rhymes: -ɒmbə, -ɒmbɹeɪ

Noun

ombre (uncountable)

1. A Spanish card game, usually played by three people. It involves forty cards, omitting the ranks of 8, 9 and 10.
   • 1712 May, [Alexander Pope], “The Rape of the Locke. An Heroi-comical Poem.”, in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, canto:

     Belinda now, whom chirst of fame invites, / Burns to encounter two advent'rous Knights, / At Ombre singly to decide their doom / And swells her breast with conquests yet to com

   • 1725–1728, [Edward Young], “(please specify the page)”, in Love of Fame, the Universal Passion. In Seven Characteristical Satires, 4th edition, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson […], published 1741, →OCLC:

     When ombre calls, his hand and heart are free, / And, joined to two, he fails not to make three.

Translations

Translations

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• French: hombre (fr) m
• Spanish: hombre (es) m

Etymology 2

From French ombre (“Type of fish”).

Noun

ombre (plural ombres)

1. (archaic) A large Mediterranean food fish, Umbrina cirrosa.

   Synonyms: umbra, umbrine, drum, drumfish, shi drum, gurbell, sea crow, bearded umbrine, corb

Translations

Umbrina cirrosa

• Bulgarian: монокоп (bg) m (monokop)

Etymology 3

From French ombré (“shaded”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɒm.bə/, /ˈɒm.bɹeɪ/

• Audio (General American); /ˈɒmbreɪ/:

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• Rhymes: -ɒmbə, -ɒmbɹeɪ

Noun

ombre (countable and uncountable, plural ombres)

2. Alternative spelling of ombré (“a gradual blending of one color hue to another”).

References

• “ombre”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “ombre”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “ombre”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “ombre”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “ombre”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “ombré”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Anagrams

• B-more, Bomer, brome, omber

Aragonese

Etymology

From Old Navarro-Aragonese hombre~home, from Latin hominem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈombɾe/
• Syllabification: om‧bre
• Rhymes: -ombɾe

Noun

ombre m (plural ombres)

1. superseded spelling of hombre (“man”)

French

Pronunciation

• (France) IPA^(key): /ɔ̃bʁ/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /õːbʀ/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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• Homophones: hombre, hombres, ombres, ombrent

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French onbre, ombre, from Latin umbra, probably from Old Latin *omra, possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *h₂mr-u-, *h₂mrup-.

Noun

ombre f (plural ombres)

1. shade, shadow
2. darkness
3. ghost

Derived terms

• à l'ombre
• dans l'ombre
• être l'ombre de quelqu'un
• faire de l'ombre
• lâcher la proie pour l'ombre
• ombrage
• ombrelle
• ombrer
• ombreux
• porter ombrage
• sans l'ombre d'un doute
• se battre contre son ombre
• sombre
• sortir de l'ombre
• suivre quelqu'un comme son ombre

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

ombre

1. inflection of ombrer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Etymology 3

From Latin umbra (“drumfish”), probably the same etymon as under etymology 1 above.

Noun

ombre m (plural ombres)

1. (Ichthyology) a fish of Osteichthyes of the freshwater family Salmonidae, of the genus Thymallus

   Synonyms: corp, thymalle

Further reading

• “ombre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• brome

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin umbra.

Noun

ombre f (plural ombris)

1. shadow
2. shade

Related terms

• ombrî
• ombrôs

Galician

Etymology

From Latin umbra.

Noun

ombre f (plural ombres)

1. shadow
2. shade

Related terms

• sombra
• sôma

Italian

Noun

ombre f

1. plural of ombra

Ladino

Etymology

From Old Spanish, from Latin homo, hominem.

Noun

ombre m (Hebrew spelling אומברי)

1. man

Norman

Etymology

From Old French onbre, from Latin umbra.

Noun

ombre f (plural ombres)

1. shadow (poorly lit area)

Old French

Noun

ombre oblique singular, f (oblique plural ombres, nominative singular ombre, nominative plural ombres)

1. alternative form of onbre

Spanish

Noun

ombre m (plural ombres)

1. obsolete spelling of hombre

Venetan

Noun

ombre

1. plural of ombra