nombre
Aragonese
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *nōminem, restructured from Latin nōmen.
References
- Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “nombre”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
Asturian
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Catalan nombre, from Latin numerus.
Derived terms
See also
References
- “nombre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “nombre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “nombre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “nombre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nɔ̃bʁ/
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Usage notes
The word nombre refers to a quantity or a mathematical concept, e.g. a number of items in a set, real numbers, complex numbers, etc., while its doublet numéro refers to a label made of digits, e.g. a rank, a jersey number, a phone number or a winning lottery number.
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- “nombre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Ladino
Etymology
From Old Spanish nomre, nomne, from Vulgar Latin *nōminem, restructured from Latin nōmen,, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.
Middle English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman noumbre and Old French nonbre, from Latin numerus.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnumbər/, /ˈnuːmbər/, /ˈnumbrə/, /ˈnuːmər/
Noun
nombre (plural nombres)
- A number (entity used to describe quantity)
- A digit (written representation of a number).
- A count; the enumeration or measurement of a quantity.
- A group or quantity (especially if large or in totality)
- A shape; a geometrical figure.
- Arithmetic; mathematics; the study of numbers.
- (grammar) Grammatical number
- (rare) A list or enumeration of items.
References
- “nǒmbre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-21.
Old French
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnombɾe/ [ˈnõm.bɾe]
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- Syllabification: nom‧bre
Etymology 1
From Old Spanish nomre, nomne, from Vulgar Latin *nōminem, restructured from Latin nōmen.
Noun
nombre m (plural nombres)
Usage notes
In Spanish, it is more common to use llamarse (“to be called”) to indicate someone’s name:
- ¿Cómo te llamas? ― What is your name? (literally, “What do you call yourself?”)
- Me llamo Carlos. ― My name is Carlos. (literally, “I call myself Carlos.”)
Derived terms
- (grammar): nombre sustantivo, nombre adjetivo, nombre propio, nombre común, nombre abstracto, nombre colectivo, nombre incontable, nombre numeral, nombre contable, nombre sustantivo
Descendants
- → Papiamentu: nòmber
Verb
nombre
- inflection of nombrar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
References
Further reading
- “nombre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014