English
adumbrant
Adumbrant comes from Latin adumbrāns ‘shading, overshadowing’, from adumbrō ‘to cast a shadow upon’, and ultimately from umbrō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEumbrō‘shade, shadow, cover’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEadumbrō‘to cast a shadow upon’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEadumbrāns‘shading, overshadowing’present active participle of adumbrō
- Englishearliest quotation 1864adumbrant
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEumbrō‘shade, shadow, cover’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEadumbrō‘to cast a shadow upon’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEadumbrāns‘shading, overshadowing’present active participle of adumbrō
- Englishearliest quotation 1864adumbrant
Earliest quotation: 1864, Lydia M. Millard: “I cherished only an adumbrant idea of the real…”
Every English word from Latin umbrō
Today it means
adj Giving a faint shadow, slight resemblance, or foreboding. By extension, faint or slight.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin umbrō / adumbrant