Borrowed fromFrenchhombre, fromSpanishhombre, literally, a man, fromLatinhomō.Doublet ofgome,hombre,homo, andomi. Seehuman.
ombre (uncountable)
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ombre (pluralombres)
ombre (countable anduncountable,pluralombres)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition ofWebster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for“ombre”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.)
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Inherited fromOld Frenchonbre,ombre, fromLatinumbra, probably fromOld Latin*omra, possibly from aProto-Indo-European*h₂mr-u-,*h₂mrup-.
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
ombre
FromLatinumbra(“drumfish”), probably the same etymon as under etymology 1 above.
ombre f
FromOld Spanish, fromLatinhomo, hominem.
ombre m (Hebrew spellingאומברי)
FromOld Frenchonbre, fromLatinumbra.
ombreoblique singular, f (oblique pluralombres,nominative singularombre,nominative pluralombres)
ombre