Noun: sombra
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | sombra |
| Plural f | sombras |
Sample Sentences
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Não há luz sem sombra. (There's no light without a shadow.)
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Vimos uma sombra passar pela janela. (We saw a shadow passing by the window.)
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O tempo na cadeia é uma sombra do seu passado. (The time spent in jail is a shadow from his past.)
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Sem sombra de dúvida. (Without a shadow of doubt.)
Nouns inflected like sombra
palestra,
indumentária,
metafísica,
histerectomia,
cumplicidade,
serifa,
sestra,
secura,
semana,
estrebaria,
estreiteza,
savana,
saroba,
sapata,
safena,
safira,
militança,
sacada,
sacola,
sanita, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Old Galician-Portuguese soombra, of uncertain origin, but ultimately containing Latin umbra (“shadow”). Possible etymologies include:
2. * from Old Galician-Portuguese soombrar, from Vulgar Latin *subumbrāre (“to shadow”), from Latin sub + umbrāre, from umbra (“shadow”).
3. * from Old Spanish solombra, from Vulgar Latin *solumbra, from Latin sub illā umbrā (literally “under that shadow”).
4. * from Latin umbra (“shadow”), influenced by Old Galician-Portuguese sol (“sun, sunshine”).
5. Cognate with Galician, Asturian, and Spanish sombra, solombra, Mirandese selombra, French sombre and possibly with Dalmatian sombreja and Romansh sumbreiva. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
soombra', Latin Nouns '
umbra', Latin Nouns '
umbra', Old Portuguese Nouns '
sol', French Nouns '
sombre'.
Verbs referencing "sombra"
Asturian Nouns
sombra.
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