umbratile

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adjective

Shady, shadowy.

OriginLatin umbratilis →
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Meanings

adjectiveumbratile (comparative more umbratile, superlative most umbratile)

comparative more umbratile · superlative most umbratile

  1. Shady, shadowy.
nounumbratile (plural umbratiles)

plural umbratiles

  1. Someone who spends their time in shade or darkness.

    Others were just larval forms in the sense of Paracelsus, umbratiles, vampires, ghosts.

    1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 336

Origin

  1. Latinumbratilis
  2. Englishumbratile

From Latin umbratilis, from umbra.

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Chicago

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