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prettygoodwordadumbrate (a-DUM-brayt) - v., to produce a vague image or resemblance of, to outline or sketch; to foreshadow or prefigure; to darken or conceal partially.
As you can tell, a vague constellation of meanings all connected by the concept of something being shadowed, either as an outline of one or concealed by one. Which makes sense since it was borrowed around 1580 from Latin adumbrātus, shaded, the past participle of adumbrāre, from ad- + umbra, shadow + verbal ending. I usually see it used only in the first sense, with a connotation of the second betimes.
---L.
As you can tell, a vague constellation of meanings all connected by the concept of something being shadowed, either as an outline of one or concealed by one. Which makes sense since it was borrowed around 1580 from Latin adumbrātus, shaded, the past participle of adumbrāre, from ad- + umbra, shadow + verbal ending. I usually see it used only in the first sense, with a connotation of the second betimes.
---L.
