ombre

Borrowed from French hombre, from Spanish hombre, literally, a man, from Latin homō. Doublet of gome, hombre, homo, and omi. See human.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɒm.bə/, /ˈɒm.bɹeɪ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒmbə, -ɒmbɹeɪ

ombre (uncountable)

1. A Spanish card game, usually played by three people. It involves forty cards, omitting the ranks of 8, 9 and 10.
   • 1712 May, [Alexander Pope], “The Rape of the Locke. An Heroi-comical Poem.”, in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, canto:

     Belinda now, whom chirst of fame invites, / Burns to encounter two advent'rous Knights, / At Ombre singly to decide their doom / And swells her breast with conquests yet to com

   • 1725–1728, [Edward Young], “(please specify the page)”, in Love of Fame, the Universal Passion. In Seven Characteristical Satires, 4th edition, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson […], published 1741, →OCLC:

     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.

   Synonyms: umbra, umbrine, drum, drumfish, shi drum, gurbell, sea crow, bearded umbrine, corb

ombre (countable and uncountable, plural ombres)

2. Alternative spelling of ombré (“a gradual blending of one color hue to another”).

• “ombre”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “ombre”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “ombre”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “ombre”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “ombre”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “ombré”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

• B-more, Bomer, brome, omber

From Old Navarro-Aragonese hombre~home, from Latin hominem.

• IPA^(key): /ˈombɾe/
• Syllabification: om‧bre
• Rhymes: -ombɾe

ombre m (plural ombres)

1. superseded spelling of hombre (“man”)

• (France) IPA^(key): /ɔ̃bʁ/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /õːbʀ/

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• Homophones: hombre, hombres, ombres, ombrent

Inherited from Old French onbre, ombre, 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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ombre

1. inflection of ombrer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Latin umbra (“drumfish”), probably the same etymon as under etymology 1 above.

ombre m (plural ombres)

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

   Synonyms: corp, thymalle

• “ombre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• brome

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 (Hebrew spelling אומברי)

1. man

From Old French onbre, from Latin umbra.

ombre f (plural ombres)

1. shadow (poorly lit area)

ombre oblique singular, 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