English Explanatory Dictionary

umbrine

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of several food fishes of the genus Umbrina of drums.

Word forms

umbrine umbrines

Etymology

Borrowed from translingual Umbrina, coined by French zoologist Georges Cuvier in 1817 on page 174 of Volume I of Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation as a Latinization of French Ombrines (“shadowy ones”) from ombre + -ines, Old French onbre, ombre, from Latin umbra, probably from Old Latin *omra, possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *h₂mr-u-, *h₂mrup-.

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