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umber

Meaningshadow

Common meaning: a brown earth pigment

Journey through time

  1. Latinumbra‘shadow’source
  2. Italianombrasource
  3. Frenchombresource
  4. Englishmeaning shiftsshadow → a brown earth pigmentumber‘a brown earth pigment’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Latin umbra ‘shadow’.

Roots

  • umbra Latin “a shadow, shade”

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