Noun: lumbre
Gender: f
Hyphenation: lum‧bre
| Singular f | lumbre |
| Plural f | lumbres |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like lumbre
enlatadora,
gencianilla,
paletada,
interneurona,
palestra,
quinacridona,
uridina,
bacinilla,
sopaipilla,
histerectomía,
desaveniencia,
baicaleína,
mesanina,
delicatessen,
hipertrigliceridemia,
teleasistencia,
sequía,
serifa,
seroja,
sesera, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *lewk-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-s-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
5. Proto-Indo-European *léwksmn̥
6. Proto-Italic *louksmən
7. Latin lūmen
8. Old Spanish lumne
9. Old Spanish lumbre
10. Spanish lumbre
11. From Old Spanish lumbre, lumne, from Latin lūmen (“light source”). First attested in the Cantar de mio Cid. The shift /mn/ > /mbɾ/ is regular and expected: compare hambre and hombre.
12. Cognate with Aragonese llumbre, lumbre, Asturian llume, Catalan llum, Galician and Portuguese lume, Italian lume, and Romanian lume. Doublet of the borrowed lumen. See: Latin Nouns '
lūmen', Asturian Nouns '
llume', Catalan Nouns '
llum', Italian Nouns '
lume', Romanian Nouns '
lume'.
Verbs referencing "lumbre"
Catalan Nouns
llum, Galician Nouns
lume, Portuguese Nouns
lume, Asturian Nouns
llume.
Translations