Meaning of umbra | Babel Free

Definitions

1. shadow
   declension-1, feminine
2. shade, shady place, shadowy place
   broadly, declension-1, feminine, figuratively
3. shade, ghost, phantom, apparition
   declension-1, feminine
4. the realm of shades, the shades, the world below or underworld
   declension-1, feminine, plural
5. imperfect copy or representation of something, pretence, faint appearance
   declension-1, feminine
6. shelter, cover
   declension-1, feminine
7. leisure, rest
   declension-1, feminine
8. drumfish
   declension-1, feminine

Equivalents

Examples

“nudus Arboris Othrys erat nec habebat Pelion umbras”

Mount Othrys is devoid of trees; Mount Pelion does not have shade

“Umbra loco deerat: qua postquam parte resedit dis genitus vates et fila sonantia movit, umbra loco venit.”

There was no shade there; but, when the poet—born of the god—sat down and moved the strings of his lyre, shade came to that spot.

““… vel Pater omnipotēns adigat mē fulmine ad umbrās,”

“… or the Father almighty hurl me with his thunderbolt to the shades, the pallid shades and boundless night of Erebus ….” (That is, the Underworld, or land of the dead. The repetition is an example of epanalepsis.)

“in eo te umbram luxuriae reperturum putas?”

You think you shall find even a shadow of luxury in that man?

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