umber

See also: ümber

English

Alternative forms

• umbre (obsolete)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French ombre (“umber”), from terre d'ombre (“dark ochre”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French umbre (“shade, shadow”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin umbra. Doublet of umbra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʌmbə/
• enPR: ŭmʹbər, IPA^(key): /ˈʌmbɚ/
• Rhymes: -ʌmbə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: um‧ber

Noun

umber (plural umbers)

1. A brown clay, somewhat darker than ochre, which contains iron and manganese oxides.

   umber:  

2. Alternative form of umbrere
3. A grayling.
4. A dusky brown African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the storks and herons.

Translations

brown clay

• Armenian: ումբրա (umbra), թխահող (hy) (tʻxahoġ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 棕土 (zōngtǔ)

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• Finnish: umbra (fi)
• Japanese: アンバー (anbā)
• Russian: умбра (ru) (umbra)

colour

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 棕土色 (zōngtǔsè)

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• Finnish: umbra (fi)
• Japanese: アンバー色 (anbā-iro)

grayling — see grayling

Scopus umbretta

• Finnish: vasarapäähaikara (fi)
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Adjective

umber (not comparable)

1. Of a reddish brown colour, like that of the pigment.
   • (Can we date this quote by J. R. Drake and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Their harps are of the umber shade / That hides the blush of waking day.

Translations

colour

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 棕土色的 (zōngtǔsè de)

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• Japanese: アンバー色の (anbā-iro no)

Verb

umber (third-person singular simple present umbers, present participle umbering, simple past and past participle umbered)

1. (transitive) To give a reddish-brown colour to.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Charles Hoyle, Exodus

     Armies o'er armies heap'd, the locusts came,
     Like clouds in autumn umbering all the sky […]

Derived terms

• burnt umber
• mottled umber
• umber moth

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Anagrams

• brume, umbre

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Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈum.ber/, [ˈʊmbɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈum.ber/, [ˈumber]

Noun

umber m (genitive umbrī); second declension

1. a kind of sheep

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	umber	umbrī
Genitive	umbrī	umbrōrum
Dative	umbrō	umbrīs
Accusative	umbrum	umbrōs
Ablative	umbrō	umbrīs
Vocative	umber	umbrī

References

• umber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Manx

Etymology

Borrowed from English umber.

Noun

umber m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. umber