Obumbro, obumbras, obumbrâre. Virg.To shadow ouer and ouer: to make darke with shadaw. To defend: to saue or keepe from daunger.Obumbratus amnis. Curt. A riuer shadowed with trees.Coma obumbrat humeros. Oui. His haire couereth or hangeth downe about his shoulder.Lucus obumbrat templum.Ouid.Shadoweth or hideth.Oleaster obumbrat vestibulum.Virg. Obumbrare, per translationem.Virg.To defend. Obumbrare. Quint. To make darke or obscure: to hide.Crimen obumbrare sub imagine erroris.Ouid.To hide or couer hir offence vnder the colour of errour.Error obumbrat crimen facti.Ouid. Obumbratur sapientia vino. Plin. Wisedom is made duske or dimme by drinking of wine.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ŏb-umbro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to overshadow, to shade (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf.: opaco, obscuro). I.Lit.: gramineus madidam caespes obumbrat humum, Ov. Am. 2, 16, 10: coma umeros obumbrat, id. M. 13, 845: templum, id. ib. 14, 837; Verg. G. 4, 20 Jahn (al. inumbret): sibi,
to shade itself
, Plin. 17, 21, 35, 165: obumbratus amnis, Curt. 5, 4, 8; Vulg. Luc. 1, 35; 9, 34.—II.Transf.A.To darken, obscure: obumbrant aethera telis, Verg. A. 12, 578: nubes solem obumbrant, Plin. 2, 42, 42, 111.—2. In gen., to cover over: germina obumbrata, Pall. 12, 1.—B.Trop.1.To overcloud, darken, obscure: nomina, Tac. H. 2, 32: candorem aequitatis, Mamert. Grat. Act. ad Julian. 5.—Prov.: sapientia vino obumbratur, Plin. 23, 1, 23, 41; cf.: fidem amittunt propter id, quod sensus obumbrant, Quint. 8, prooem. 23. —2.To cover, cloak, conceal, disguise, palliale; to screen, defend, protect: crimen, Ov. P. 3, 3, 75: simulationem lacrimis, Petr. 101: magnum reginae nomen (eum) obumbrat, Verg. A. 11, 223.