Etymology

umbrage

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Today it means: A feeling of anger or annoyance caused by something offensive. Full definition →

Middle French ombrage ← Old French ombrage ← Latin umbrāticus
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromumbrāticus“in the shade”
  2. Old French · derived fromombrage
  3. Middle French · borrowed fromombrage“umbrage”
  4. English todayumbrage

From Middle French ombrage (“umbrage”), from Old French ombrage, from Latin umbrāticus (“in the shade”), from umbra (“shadow, shade”).

Words from the same roots

Latinumbrāticus all →

umbratic

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.