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“shade, shadow” in Latin
umbrashadow; shade, ghost, phantom, apparition; the realm of shades, the shades, the world below or underworldopācitāsshadiness, shadeimāgōimage, imitation, likeness, statue, representation; ancestral image; ghost, apparitionsimulācrumimage, likeness, statue, effigy, portrait; specter, ghost, phantom; mimicry, imitationspeciēsseeing, view, look; spectacle, sight; external appearance, looks; general outline or shapeōtiumtime free from activity: leisure, free time; time avoiding activity: idleness, inactivity; peace, repose, quiet, quietnetūtēlatutelage, guardianship; dependent, client; watching, keeping, charge, carediscrīmendistinction, difference, discrimination; division, separation; decision, judgementterradry land (as opposed to watery parts of the Earth); ground, floor (the surface of the land); earth, soil, dirt, clay, clpraebeōto proffer, offer; to provide, grant, furnish, supply, service; to show, display
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
shade, shadow s.
PROP., Want of light, place not lighted by the sun, umbra (opposed to lux); opacitas (opposed to lumen; e.g., umbra platani, terrae; opacitas ramorum). To afford or give a shadow, umbram facere (Verg.), praebere (Sen., Trag.); umbrare (once, Col., 5, 7, 2). To repose in the shade, in or sub umbra requiescere: to cast a shadow, umbram jacere, ejaculari (Plin.), afferre (e.g. colles afferunt umbram vallibus, Cic., De Rep., 2, 6). A thick shade, umbra densa (Hor.), nigra (Luc.). To be afraid of a shadow, umbras timere (Cic.). To be afraid of one’s own shadow, suam timere umbram (Quint., Cic., Pet., Cons., 2). (proverbially) To throw anybody into the shade, obstruit aliquis luminibus alicujus (Cic.): to cast anything into the shade, removere et obruere aliquid (opposed to in luce ponere aliquid, or insigne facere aliquid, Cic.).
Figuratively, (in painting) umbra (e.g., ars pictoria invenit lumen et umbras, Plin.; lumen et umbras custodire, ib.; in umbris et in eminentia, Cic.). To throw anything into the shade, *aliquid in imagine ita ponere, ut recedat (PROP.); aliquid removere et obruere (figuratively, opposed to aliquid in luce ponere or insigne facere).
A slight or faint trace of anything, umbra (e.g., gloriae, juris, libertatis); adumbrata imago; imago; simulacrum; species (opposed to effigies eminens; res solida et expressa).
A departed spirit, umbra; (plur.) umbrae (the shades; also, manes).
Leisure, ease, umbra; otium.
Protection, umbra; tutela.
Difference or degree of color, discrimen: there are many shades even in white, in candore ipso magna differentia est: to have a shade of black, nigricare (to be blackish): nigrescere (to become black): (of violet) in violam vergere, violam sentire, in violam desinere (Plin.). White with a shade of violet, candidus color violam sentiens (Plin.). [Vid: HUE.] Figuratively, (Of meaning, etc.) discrimen. To distinguish the nice shades of meaning in words, tennissima discrimina significationum verborum definire.
In painting, umbrae (plur.). [Vid: also, SHADING.]
Protection (for the eyes), *umbraculum oculos a luminis splendore tuens.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for shade, shadow?
- The usual Latin words for “shade, shadow” are umbra, opācitās, imāgō; also simulācrum, speciēs, ōtium. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.