adumbration
演变路径（由近及远）
- 英语
- 源自 ←拉丁语 adumbrātiō “sketch; outline, silhouette; pretence, semblance”
词源说明
From Latin adumbrātiō (“sketch; outline, silhouette; pretence, semblance”) + -ion (suffix indicating a condition or state). Adumbrātiō is derived from adumbrāre (present active infinitive of adumbrō (“to represent an object with light and shade, to shade; to represent in outline, to outline, silhouette, sketch; to cast a shadow on, overshadow, shade; to copy, counterfeit, imitate”)) + -tiō (suffix forming nouns relating to actions or the results of actions). Adumbrō is derived from ad- (prefix meaning ‘to, towards’) + umbrō (“to cast a shadow, to shade; to overshadow”) (from umbra (“shade; shadow; ghost”)).
释义（英文）
名词 Noun
- (uncountable) The state of being in shadow or shade; (countable) a shadow.
- (countable) A faint sketch; a brief representation, an outline.
- (countable, uncountable, figuratively) A rough or symbolic representation; a vague indication of what is to come, a foreshadowing.
- (countable, philosophy, specifically phenomenology) The form of an object as seen by an observer.