ombre

Borrowed from French hombre, from Spanish hombre, literally, a man, from Latin homo. See human.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɒm.bə/, /ˈɒm.bɹeɪ/

ombre (uncountable)

1. A Spanish card game, usually played by three people. It involves forty cards, omitting the ranks of 8, 9 and 10.

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

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ombre (plural ombres)

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

• umbra, umbrine

Borrowed from French ombre ("shade"). Doublet of umber.

ombre (plural ombres)

1. (colors) A gradual blending of one color hue to another, usually moving tints and shades from light to dark.

• ombré
• ombrée

• brome, omber

From Latin homo, hominem.

ombre m (plural ombres)

1. man
2. a 17th-century Spanish card game (c. 1650-1660), usually played by three persons with a pack of 40 cards.
3. the lone player in this game undertaking to win the pool against two defenders.

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̃bʁ/

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• Homophones: hombre, hombres, ombres, ombrent

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

ombre f (plural ombres)

1. shade, shadow
2. darkness
3. ghost

ombre

1. first-person singular present indicative of ombrer
2. third-person singular present indicative of ombrer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of ombrer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of ombrer
5. second-person singular imperative of ombrer

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ombre m (plural ombres)

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

• corp
• thymalle

• brome

• “ombre” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Latin umbra.

ombre f (plural ombris)

1. shadow
2. shade

• ombrî
• ombrôs

From Latin umbra.

ombre f (plural ombres)

1. shadow
2. shade

• sombra
• sôma

ombre f

1. plural of ombra

From Old Spanish, from Latin homo, hominem.

ombre m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling אומברי‎)

1. man

From Old French onbre, from Latin umbra.

ombre f (plural ombres)

1. shadow (poorly lit area)

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

1. Alternative form of onbre

ombre m (plural ombres)

1. Obsolete spelling of hombre

ombre

1. plural of ombra