umbra – Latin noun declension

Latin noun forms of umbra

Noun: umbra
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine Declension: First

Nominative

Singularumbra
Pluralumbrae

Genitive

Singularumbrae
Pluralumbrārum

Dative

Singularumbrae
Pluralumbrīs

Accusative

Singularumbram
Pluralumbrās

Ablative

Singularumbrā
Pluralumbrīs

Vocative

Singularumbra
Pluralumbrae

Sample Sentences

  • nudus Arboris Othrys erat nec habebat Pelion umbras (Mount Othrys is devoid of trees; Mount Pelion does not have shade) [8 CE, Ovidius, Metamorphoses 12.513]
  • Umbra loco deerat: qua postquam parte resedit dis genitus vates et fila sonantia movit, umbra loco venit. (There was no shade there; but, when the poet—born of the god—sat down and moved the strings of his lyre, shade came to that spot.) [8 CE, Ovidius, Metamorphoses 10.88-90]
  • [...] vel Pater omnipotēns adigat mē fulmine ad umbrās,
  • pallentīs umbrās Erebī noctemque profundam, [...]. (“… or the Father almighty hurl me with his thunderbolt to the shades, the pallid shades and boundless night of Erebus ….”
  • (That is, the Underworld, or land of the dead. The repetition is an example of epanalepsis.)) [29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.25-26]
  • in eo te umbram luxuriae reperturum putas? (You think you shall find even a shadow of luxury in that man?) [63 BCE, Cicero, Pro Murena 6.13]

Nouns inflected like umbra

scōria, meschīta, sewera, zōnula, ecclēsia, concurrentia, satira, satura, satyra, sagīna, sagēna, sarīsa, salīva, salīna, sampsa, samara, sacēna, salvia, sabīna, sculna, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Generally connected with Lithuanian unksna (“shade”), from Proto-Indo-European *wnksrā-. This term is tentatively derived from Proto-Indo-European *(H)wenk- (“to bend”); however, the semantic leaps required to go from "bend" to "shade" are large and unlikely.
2. Alternatively, if from Old Latin *omra, possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *h₂mr-u-, *h₂mrup-; related to Ancient Greek ἀμαυρός (amaurós, “dark”), Luwian 𒈠𒅈𒉿𒄿𒀀 (“rot”), and 𒈠𒊒𒉿𒄿 (“rotten”) (also see Hittite Maraššantiya, their name for the Kızılırmak River), and this Indo-European source is said to be a possible borrowing from a Semitic root *ḥ-m-r (“be red”), compare Arabic ح م ر (ḥ m r).

Verbs referencing "umbra"

Catalan Nouns ombra, Italian Nouns ombra, English Nouns umber, English Nouns umbra, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns umbra, French Nouns ombre, Galician Nouns ombre, English Nouns umbrel, Asturian Nouns sombra, Portuguese Nouns sombra, Spanish Nouns sombra, Italian Nouns ombrella, Dutch Nouns lommer, Romanian Nouns umbră, English Nouns umbrine, English Nouns umbrere, English Nouns umbrisol, Asturian Nouns solombra, Old Portuguese Nouns soombra, French Nouns omble.

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