umbratile

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin umbratilis, from umbra.

Adjective[edit]

umbratile (comparative more umbratile, superlative most umbratile)

  1. Shady, shadowy.

Noun[edit]

umbratile (plural umbratiles)

  1. Someone who spends their time in shade or darkness.
    • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 336:
      Others were just larval forms in the sense of Paracelsus, umbratiles, vampires, ghosts.

Latin[edit]

Adjective[edit]

umbrātile

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of umbrātilis
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