sombrer

== English == === Adjective === sombrer comparative form of sombre: more sombre == French == === Etymology === 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. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /sɔ̃.bʁe/ === Verb === sombrer (intransitive, literary, of a vessel) to sink (intransitive, literary, figuratively) to sink (+dans; into) (figuratively, intransitive) to whittle away (disappear) ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Synonyms ==== (of a vessel, to sink): couler (figuratively, to sink): s'écrouler === Further reading === “sombrer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012