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語源

From Middle French ombre (“umber”), from terre d'ombre (“dark ochre”), from Old French umbre (“shade, shadow”), from Latin umbra. Doublet of umbra.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈʌmbə/
• (General American) enPR: ŭmʹbər, IPA: /ˈʌmbɚ/
• 韻: -ʌmbə(ɹ)
• ハイフネーション: um‧ber

名詞

umber (countable and uncountable, plural umbers)

1. A brown clay, somewhat darker than ochre, which contains iron and manganese oxides.

   umber:  

   • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], lines 518-21:

     I'll put myself in poor and mean attire,
     And with a kind of umber smirch my face;
     The like do you; so shall we pass along,
     And never stir assailants.

2. Alternative form of umbrere
3. A grayling.
4. A dusky brown African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the shoebill and herons; a hamerkop.

派生語

形容詞

umber (not comparable)

1. Of a reddish brown colour, like that of the pigment.
   • 1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay:

     Their harps are of the umber shade / That hides the blush of waking day.

動詞

umber (third-person singular simple present umbers, present participle umbering, simple past and past participle umbered)

1. (transitive) To give a reddish-brown colour to.
   • 1807, Charles Hoyle, Exodus:

     Armies o'er armies heap'd, the locusts came,
     Like clouds in autumn umbering all the sky […]

派生語

• burnt umber
• mottled umber
• umber moth

参考

• Appendix:Colors

アナグラム

• brume, umbre

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈum.ber/, [ˈʊmbɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈum.ber/, [ˈumber]

形容詞

umber (feminine umbra, neuter umbrum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. Umbrian

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

名詞

umber m (genitive umbrī); second declension

1. an Umbrian; also a breed of sheep and dog

語形変化

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

参照

• umber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Vmber” on page 2087/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)