Etymograph

English

adumbration

Adumbration comes from Latin adumbrātiō ‘sketch’, from adumbrō ‘to bring a shadow over something, cast a…’, and ultimately from umbrō.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEumbrō‘shade, shadow, cover’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEadumbrō‘to bring a shadow over something, cast a shadow on, shade or overshadow something, cover’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEadumbrātiō‘sketch’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1631adumbration

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEumbrō‘shade, shadow, cover’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEadumbrō‘to bring a shadow over something, cast a shadow on, shade or overshadow something, cover’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEadumbrātiō‘sketch’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1631adumbration

Earliest quotation: 1631, Francis Bacon, II. Century. [Experiments in Consort Touching Exteriour, and: “There is another Difference of Sounds, which wee call…”

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The story

Adumbrātiō is derived from adumbrāre (present active infinitive of adumbrō (‘to represent an object with light and shade, to shade; to represent in outline, to outline, silhouette, sketch; to cast a shadow on, overshadow, shade; to copy, counterfeit, imitate’)) + -tiō (suffix forming nouns relating to actions or the results of actions). Adumbrō is derived from ad- (prefix meaning ‘to, towards’) + umbrō (‘to cast a shadow, to shade; to overshadow’) (from umbra (‘shade; shadow; ghost’)).

Every English word from Latin umbrō

Today it means

noun The state of being in shadow or shade; (countable) a shadow.

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