hombre

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English

WOTD – 16 September 2017

Etymology

A sombrero-wearing mariachi singer in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Borrowed from Spanish hombre (“man; human being”), from Old Spanish omne, from Latin hominem, accusative of homō (“a human being, a person”), from Old Latin hemō, from Proto-Italic *hemō (“man”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ (“earthling”), from *dʰéǵʰōm (“earth”).

Pronunciation

Noun

hombre (plural hombres)

  1. (chiefly US, in Spanish-speaking contexts, slang) A man, a chap, a guy; especially a Hispanic or Spanish man.
    • c. 1850, [Thomas] Mayne Reid, “A Group of Jarochos”, in The Guerilla Chief, and Other Tales, London: C. H. Clarke, 13, Paternoster Row, →OCLC, page 62:
      [W]e're glad to learn that the Yankee bullet has not quite stopped your breath. You're all right, hombre!
    • 1852 March 8, E. P., “Golden Correspondence.—No. 1”, in J M. Church, editor, Church’s Bizarre. For Fireside and Wayside, volume I, number 1 (New Series), Philadelphia, Pa.: Church & Co., 140 Chestnut Street, published 17 April 1852, →OCLC, page 9, column 2:
      That hombre now with the worn out hat, tattered shirt, and fragmentary breeches, wears a sword. Bless you, his dignity would suffer greatly without it!
    • 2010, Jon Sharpe [pseudonym], chapter 1, in Rocky Mountain Revenge (The Trailsman; no. 342), New York, N.Y.: Signet Books, New American Library, →ISBN:
      The foreman. As tough an hombre who ever lived. If Mr. Bell had sent Jackson instead of me, he'd take your rifle and beat you half to death with it.
    • 2016, Lawrence Winkler, “Bajada”, in Orion’s Cartwheel (Cartwheels Quadrilogy; 1), Victoria, B.C.: First Choice Books, →ISBN, page 22:
      There was a pause I didn't like, punctuated by shrieks of shrill laughter from the hombres at the bar. Only Mexicans can laugh like that.

Further reading

Aragonese

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Noun

hombre m

  1. Alternative spelling of ombre (“man”)

French

Pronunciation

Noun

hombre m (plural hombres)

  1. a kind of card game from Spain

Descendants

  • → English: ombre

Further reading

Navarro-Aragonese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Latin hominem.

Pronunciation

Noun

hombre m (plural hombres)

  1. man
    • 14th c., Crónica de San Juan de la Peña:
      SEGVNT QVE HAVE / mos leydo en muytos liuros el primʳo hombŕ q̀ se poblo / en España hauia nombre Tubal, del qual yxio la ge- / na͡con d'los ybers.
      As we have read in many books, the first man to settle in Spain was named Tubal, from whom issued the race of the Iberians.

Descendants

References

  1. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20150927153309/http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObras/bne/12937401998072638532624/ima0008.htm

Further reading

  • Nagore Laín, Francho (2021) Vocabulario de la crónica de San Juan de la Peña (versión aragonesa, s. XIV), Zaragoza: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, page 268

Spanish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish omne, from Latin hominem, homō, from Old Latin hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ (“earthling”). The Old Spanish form omne was first dissimilated to omre and then a gliding sound -b- arose before the -r-. Compare the same development in hambre and nombre.

Pronunciation

Noun

hombre m (plural hombres)

  1. man, (adult male human)
    Synonyms: caballero, señor
    Antonym: mujer
    Sé (un) hombre! ― Man up!
  2. man, (all humans collectively); mankind, humankind
    Synonym: ser humano
  3. (anthropology, archaeology, paleontology) man, (individual of the species Homo sapiens, the genus Homo, or the subtribe Hominina)
    Synonyms: humano, persona
  4. (colloquial) husband
    Synonym: marido
  5. (gay slang) top
    Synonym: activo
  6. ombre (Spanish card game)

Derived terms

(diminutive hombrecillo or hombrecito) (augmentative hombretón)

Related terms

Descendants

Interjection

¡hombre!

  1. man!
  2. hey!
  3. oh, come on!

Further reading

Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia