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umbrine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
um-brine
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Etymology

From umb(e)r + -ine, 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-.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

umbrines (plural)

Questions

What does umbrine mean?
Any of several food fishes of the genus Umbrina of drums.
Where does umbrine come from?
It is traced to French.

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