Asombrero -wearingmariachi singer inChicago ,Illinois , U.S. Borrowed fromSpanish hombre ( “ man ;human being ” ) , fromOld Spanish omne , fromLatin hominem ,accusative ofhomō ( “ a human being, aperson ” ) , fromOld Latin hemō , fromProto-Italic *hemō ( “ man ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ ( “ earthling ” ) , from*dʰéǵʰōm ( “ earth ” ) .Doublet ofgome ,homo ,ombre , and omi .
hombre (plural hombres )
( chiefly US , in Spanish-speaking contexts, slang ) Aman , achap , aguy ;especially aHispanic orSpanish man.c. 1850 ,[Thomas] Mayne Reid , “A Group of Jarochos”, inThe Guerilla[sic ] Chief, and Other Tales , London: C. H. Clarke, 13,Paternoster Row ,→OCLC ,page62 :[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., 140Chestnut Street , published17 April 1852 ,→OCLC ,page 9 , column 2:Thathombre 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], chapter1 , inRocky Mountain Revenge (The Trailsman ;no. 342 ), New York, N.Y.: Signet Books,New American Library ,→ISBN :The foreman. As tough anhombre 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.
2016 , Lawrence Winkler, “Bajada”, inOrion’s Cartwheel (Cartwheels Quadrilogy; 1), Victoria, B.C.: First Choice Books,→ISBN ,page22 :There was a pause I didn't like, punctuated by shrieks of shrill laughter from thehombres at the bar. Only Mexicans can laugh like that.
FromOld Navarro-Aragonese hombre~home , fromLatin hominem .
hombre m (plural hombres )
man a 17th-century Spanishcard game (c. 1650-1660), usually played by three persons with a pack of 40 cards.the lone player in this game undertaking to win the pool against two defenders. “hombre ”, inAragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish) hombre m (plural hombres )
a kind ofcard game fromSpain Old Navarro-Aragonese [ edit ] Inherited fromLatin hominem .
hombre m (plural hombres )
man 14th c. ,Crónica de San Juan de la Peña :SEGVNT QVE HAVE / mos leydo en muytos liuros el primʳohombŕ q̀ se poblo / en España hauia nombre Tubal, del qual yxio la ge- / na͡con d'los ybers.[ 1] As we have read in many books, the firstman to settle in Spain was named Tubal, from whom issued the race of the Iberians. Nagore Laín, Francho (2021 )Vocabulario de la crónica de San Juan de la Peña (versión aragonesa, s. XIV) , Zaragoza: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, page268 Inherited fromOld Spanish omne , fromLatin hominem, homō , fromOld Latin hemō , fromProto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ ( “ earthling ” ) . The Old Spanish formomne was firstdissimilated toomre and then a gliding sound-b- arose before the-r- . Compare the same development inhambre andnombre .
IPA (key ) : /ˈombɾe/ [ˈõm.bɾe] Rhymes:-ombɾe Syllabification:hom‧bre hombre m (plural hombres )
man ,( adult male human ) Synonyms: caballero ,señor Antonym: mujer Sé (un)hombre ! ―Man up!man ,( all humans collectively ) ; mankind, humankindSynonym: ser humano ( anthropology , archaeology , paleontology ) man ,( individual of the species Homo sapiens, the genus Homo, or the subtribe Hominina ) Synonyms: humano ,persona ( colloquial ) husband Synonym: marido ( gay slang ) top Synonym: activo ombre ( Spanish card game ) ¡hombre!
man !hey !oh,come on !