umbo

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin umbō (a shield boss).

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umbo (plural umbones or umbos or umboes)

  1. (historical) The boss of a shield, at or near the middle and usually projecting, sometimes in a sharp spike.
    • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page xii:
      It is thirteen inches diameter, made of wood covered with leather, and an iron plate decorated with nails and mouldings; the boss or umbo projects four inches.
    • 2023 March 21, Virginia Heffernan, “I Saw the Face of God in a Semiconductor Factory”, in WIRED[1]:
      serves as the umbo of the region’s so-called Silicon Shield
  2. (biology) A boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane.
    1. (anatomy) An inward projection of the tympanic membrane of the ear.
    2. (zoology) One of the lateral prominences just above the hinge of a bivalve shell.
    3. (mycology) A bump or protrusion on the cap of a mushroom or toadstool.

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Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *h₃émbʰō ~ *h₃m̥bʰ-n-és, from the root *h₃m̥bʰ- (navel; nave, hub). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *ambô (belly; paunch).

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Noun

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umbō m (genitive umbōnis); third declension

  1. boss (of a shield etc.)
  2. elbow (or similar projecting part)

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative umbō umbōnēs
Genitive umbōnis umbōnum
Dative umbōnī umbōnibus
Accusative umbōnem umbōnēs
Ablative umbōne umbōnibus
Vocative umbō umbōnēs
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Descendants

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  • Translingual: Umbonium (genus name)
  • English: umbo
  • Italian: umbone

References

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  • umbo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • umbo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • umbo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • umbo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • umbo”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Swahili

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Etymology

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From -umba (to create).

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umbo (ma class, plural maumbo)

  1. shape, form, structure