nombril
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French nombril.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈnɒmbɹɪl/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈnɑmbɹəl/
Noun
nombril (plural nombrils)
- (heraldry) A point halfway between the fess point and the middle base point of an escutcheon.
Synonyms
- navel point
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for nombril in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
French
Etymology
From Old French nonbril, from Vulgar Latin *umbilīculus (compare Occitan embonilh), from Latin umbilīcus. The initial n is probably due to an interference from possessive determiners: Old French mun onbril (“my navel”) → mun nonbril (i.e. a rebracketing). Compare the development of Catalan llombrígol, Romanian buric. Doublet of ombilic, a borrowing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nɔ̃.bʁil/, /nɔ̃.bʁi/
audio (file)
Noun
nombril m (plural nombrils)
- navel, belly button
- middle
Derived terms
- nombrilisme
- se prendre pour le nombril du monde
- se regarder le nombril
Related terms
- ombilic
Further reading
- “nombril”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French nonbril, from Latin *umbiliculus, from Latin umbilicus.
Noun
nombril m (plural nombrils)
- belly button
Descendants
- French: nombril