The story
- Old French · derived fromsombre
- French · borrowed fromsombre“dark”
- English todaysombre
Borrowed from French sombre (“dark”), from Old French sombre, from a verb *sombrer or Latin sub- + umbra. Compare Spanish sombra (“shade; dark part of a picture; ghost”).
Words from the same roots
Frenchsombre all →
sombrous
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.