umbral

• IPA^(key): /ˈʌmbrəl/

umbral (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to an umbra.

• umbral calculus
• umbral moonshine

• Labrum, brumal, labrum, lumbar

Borrowed from Spanish umbral (“doorstep, threshold”), from earlier lumbral, from Latin limināris.

• Hyphenation: um‧bral
• Rhymes: -al, -aw

umbral m (plural umbrais)

1. threshold (area in front of a door)

   Synonyms: limiar, soleira

2. jamb (upright post that frames a door or window)

   Synonym: ombreira

3. (Spiritism) a shadowy transitory realm to where immoral spirits are attracted after their physical death

• umbralino

From lumbral.

• IPA^(key): /umˈbɾal/ [ũmˈbɾal]

umbral m (plural umbrales)

1. doorstep; stoop
2. (figurative) threshold
   • 2020 October 9, “Única alternativa”, in El País‎^[1]:

     El Gobierno había fijado en 500 ese umbral, entre otros criterios.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• → Portuguese: umbral

• “umbral”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28