obumbrate

Borrowed from Latin obumbrātus, perfect passive participle of obumbrō (“to overshadow, cloud”), from ob + to shade; see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

verb

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɒˈbʌmbreɪt/, /əˈbʌmbreɪt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɑˈbəmˌbreɪt/, /əˈbəmˌbreɪt/

obumbrate (third-person singular simple present obumbrates, present participle obumbrating, simple past and past participle obumbrated)

1. (rare) To shade; to darken; to cloud. [from 1531]
   • 1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC:

     those clouds, which did hang over and thus obumbrate him

2. (obsolete, transitive) To foreshadow, prefigure. [1632–1852]
3. (obsolete) past participle of obumbrate

obumbrate (not comparable)

1. (zoology, rare) Lying under some projecting part, like the abdomen of certain spiders. [from 1826]
2. (chiefly Scotland, obsolete) Overshadowed, darkened. [1425-1650]

“obumbrate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• bumboater

obumbrāte

1. vocative masculine singular of obumbrātus