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sombrer.

to sink

7 characters2 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

verb/sɔ̃.bʁe/
  1. to sink

    intransitive · literary
  2. to sink (+dans; into)

    figuratively · intransitive · literary
    sombrer dans l'alcoolisme
  3. to whittle away (disappear)

    figuratively · intransitive
Where this word comes from

From a Middle French soussombrer, from alteration of soussoubrer, with influence from sombre, and the first part perhaps being interpreted as a prefix. The word soussoubrer was probably a loan through a maritime route from Portuguese soçobrar, itself likely from Spanish zozobrar, from Old Spanish sozobrar, and this from Old Catalan sotsobrar, from sotsobre, from sots + sobre, or from Vulgar Latin *subsuperāre, from Latin sub + super.

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