sombra

• solombra

Ultimately from Latin umbra, through an intermediate Vulgar Latin form. Compare Spanish and Portuguese sombra.

sombra f (plural sombres)

1. shade, shadow

• IPA^(key): /sɔ̃.bʁa/

sombra

1. third-person singular past historic of sombrer

• ombras

• sóma, sôma (obsolete, literary)

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese soonbra, perhaps from Latin sub (“under”) + umbra (“shadow”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsombɾa̝/

sombra m (plural sombras)

1. shade
2. shadow
   • c1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana, page 50:

     estaua Paris adeante su a soonbra de hũ moy grande et forte rrobre

     Paris was ahead, under the shadow of a very large and strong oak tree

   • 1880, Rosalía de Castro, Cantares Gallegos:

     Cando penso que te fuches,

     negra sombra que me asombras,

     ó pé dos meus cabezales

     tornas facéndome mofa.

     Cando maxino que es ida,

     no mesmo sol te me amostras,

     i eres a estrela que brila,

     i eres o vento que zoa.

     Si cantan, es ti que cantas,

     si choran, es ti que choras,

     i es o marmurio do río

     i es a noite i es a aurora.

     En todo estás e ti es todo,

     pra min i en min mesma moras,

     nin me abandonarás nunca,

     sombra que sempre me asombras.

     When I think that you're gone,

     dark shadow that shadows me,

     at the feet of my bed

     you return to mock me.

     When I'm imagining you're gone,

     in the Sun itself you show yourself,

     and you are the star that glitters

     and you are the wind that howls.

     if they sing, it's you singing,

     if they cry, it's you crying,

     and you are the river's murmur,

     and you're the night and you're the dawn.

     Everywhere you're and you're everything,

     for me and in me myself you dwell,

     and never you'll left me alone,

     shadow that always shadows me.

3. (folklore, supernatural) shadow, ghost

• “soonbra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “soonbra” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “sombra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “sombra” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “sombra” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Old Portuguese soombra, of uncertain origin, but ultimately containing Latin umbra (“shadow”). Possible etymologies include:

• from Old Portuguese soombrar, from Vulgar Latin *subumbrāre (“to shadow”), from Latin sub + umbrāre, from umbra (“shadow”).[1]
• from Old Spanish solombra, from Vulgar Latin *solumbra, from Latin sub illa umbra.[2]
• from Latin umbra (“shadow”), influenced by Old Portuguese sol (“sun, sunshine”).[1]

Cognate with Galician sombra, Asturian sombra, solombra, Mirandese selombra, Spanish sombra, French sombre and possibly with Dalmatian sombreja and Romansch sumbreiva. Ultimately possibly from Old Latin *omra, possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *h₂mr-u-, *h₂mrup-.

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsõ.bɾɐ/
• Hyphenation: som‧bra

sombra f (plural sombras)

1. shade

   Fique na sombra.

   Stay in the shade.

2. shadow

   Não há luz sem sombra.

   There's no light without a shadow.

3. (figuratively) a negative aspect of something

   O tempo na cadeia é uma sombra do seu passado.

   The time spent in jail is a shadow from his past.

4. shadow (a faint silhouette)

   Vimos uma sombra passar pela janela.

   We saw a shadow passing by the window.

5. shadow; trace; hint (a very small amount, especially of something abstract)

   Sem sombra de dúvida.

   Without a shadow of doubt.

6. tail (someone who closely and persistently follows another)
7. (supernatural, fantasy) shadow; shade; ghost
8. eye shadow (makeup applied to the eyelids)
9. (painting, drawing) the darker parts of an image
10. (figuratively) copycat (one who imitates someone without adding ingenuity)

• (faint silhouette): vulto
• (trace): traço, resquício
• (ghost): fantasma

• (shade): sol, luz, claridade
• (darker parts of an image): luz

• à sombra de
• sombra de dúvida
• sombreiro
• sombrinha

• assombrar
• sombrar
• sombreado
• sombrear

• IPA^(key): /ˈsombɾa/, [ˈsõmbɾa]
• Hyphenation: som‧bra

Possibly from the verb sombrar (from Vulgar Latin *subumbrāre), or more likely from Latin umbra, probably altered by influence from sol (“sun”); cf. Old Spanish solombra. An alternative explanation for this form is a Latin construction sub illa umbra. Ultimately possibly from Old Latin *omra, possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *h₂mr-u-, *h₂mrup-.

sombra f (plural sombras)

1. shade
2. shadow
3. ghost

• sombraje
• sombrear
• sombrero
• sombrilla
• sombrío

See the etymology of the main entry.

sombra

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of sombrar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of sombrar; (he/she/it/one) shades