# hombre
## English
### Etymology

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”). Doublet of gome, homo, ombre, and omi.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɒmbɹeɪ/, /-bɹi/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈɑmbɹeɪ/, /ˈʌmbɹeɪ/, /-bɹi/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒmbɹeɪ
* Hyphenation: hom‧bre

### Noun

hombre (plural hombres)
* (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[oseph] 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

* hombre on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Aragonese
### Alternative forms

* home

### Etymology

From Old Navarro-Aragonese hombre~home, from Latin hominem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈombɾe/
* Rhymes: -ombɾe
* Syllabification: hom‧bre

### Noun

hombre m (plural hombres)
* man
* a 17th-century Spanish card game (c. 1650-1660), usually played by three persons with a pack of 40 cards.
    the lone player in this game undertaking to win the pool against two defenders.

### References

* “hombre”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɔ̃bʁ/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: hombres, ombre, ombres, ombrent

### Noun

hombre m (plural hombres)
* a kind of card game from Spain

#### Descendants

* → English: ombre

### Further reading

* “hombre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Old Navarro-Aragonese
### Alternative forms

* ombre, ome, omme, homme
* uamne (11th century, Glosas Emilianenses)

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin hominem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈombɾe/

### Noun

hombre m (plural hombres)
* 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

* Aragonese: ombre

### References

* ↑ 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

* honbre, ombre, onbre (obsolete)

### 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

* IPA: /ˈombɾe/ [ˈõm.bɾe]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ombɾe
* Syllabification: hom‧bre

### Noun

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

#### Derived terms

* abominable hombre de las nieves
* buen hombre
* como un solo hombre
* cuerpo de hombre
* de hombre a hombre
* Hijo del Hombre
* hombre al agua
* hombre bueno
* hombre cis
* hombre con hombre
* hombre de armas
* hombre de barba
* hombre de Cromañón
* hombre de Dios
* hombre de guerra
* hombre de jengibre
* hombre de la bolsa
* hombre de la calle
* hombre de letras
* hombre de Neandertal
* hombre de negocios
* hombre de paja
* hombre de pelo en pecho
* hombre de punto
* hombre del mundo
* hombre del tiempo
* hombre gamba
* hombre lobo
* hombre muerto
* hombre orquesta
* hombre prevenido vale por dos
* hombre rana
* hombre trans
* hombredad
* hombría
* juego del hombre
* manos besa el hombre, que querría ver cortadas
* matahombres
* pobre hombre
* por cuerpo de hombre

#### Related terms

* prohombre

#### Descendants

* Chavacano: hombre
* → English: hombre
* → French: hombre
** → English: ombre
* → Papiamentu: hòmber

### Interjection

¡hombre!
* man!
* hey!
* oh, come on!

### Further reading

* “hombre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10