umbra

Borrowed from Latin umbra (“shadow”). Doublet of umber.

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: ŭmʹbrə, IPA^(key): /ˈʌmbɹə/
• Rhymes: -ʌmbɹə
• Hyphenation: um‧bra

umbra (plural umbras or umbrae)

1. The fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object.
   1. (astronomy) The area on the earth or moon experiencing the total phase of an eclipse.
2. (astronomy) The central region of a sunspot.
3. (chiefly literary) A shadow.
4. (archaic) An uninvited guest brought along by one who was invited.
5. One of the family Umbridae of mudminnows.
6. A sciaenoid fish, the umbrine.

• antumbra
• penumbra

• Burma, rumba

From Latin umbra (“shadow”).

• IPA^(key): /ɔmbra/, [ˈɔmb̥ʁɑ]

umbra c (singular definite umbraen, not used in plural form)

1. umber (pigment, colour)
2. (as an adjective) umber (of a reddish brown colour)

• IPA^(key): /ˈumbrɑ/, [ˈumbrɑ]
• Hyphenation: umb‧ra

umbra

1. umbra

• (part of a shadow): täysvarjo

• Burma, burma, rumba

From Latin.

umbra (plural umbras)

1. shadow

umbra

1. feminine singular of umbro

umbra f (plural umbre, masculine umbro)

1. Female Umbrian; woman native or inhabitant of Umbria

• bruma, rumba

If from Old Latin *omra, possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *h₂mr-u-, *h₂mrup-; related to Ancient Greek ἀμαυρός (amaurós, “dark”), Luwian 𒈠𒅈𒉿𒄿𒀀 (“rot”), and 𒈠𒊒𒉿𒄿 (“rotten”) (also see Hittite Maraššantiya, their name for the Kızılırmak River), and this IE source said to be a possible borrowing from a Semitic root h-m-r (“be red”).[1]

Generally connected with Lithuanian unksna.[2]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈum.bra/, [ˈʊm.bra]

umbra f (genitive umbrae); first declension

1. a shadow
2. a shade
3. a ghost

First-declension noun.

• umbrātiō

• umbra in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• umbra in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• umbra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to exert oneself in the schools: desudare in scholae umbra or umbraculis
    
• umbra in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill

umbra f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of umbră

umbra f

1. feminine singular of umbro

umbra f (plural umbras, masculine umbro, masculine plural umbros)

1. female equivalent of umbro