Etymology

adumbrant

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Today it means: Giving a faint shadow, slight resemblance, or foreboding. By extension, faint or slight. Full definition →

Latin adumbrāns
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  1. Latin · derived fromadumbrāns
  2. English todayadumbrant

An adaptation of adumbrant-, the oblique stem of the Latin adumbrāns, the present active participle of adumbrō (“to cast a shadow upon”).

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