Umbrage is offence taken at something said or done. Take umbrage, umbrage at the remark, without umbrage.
It appears almost only as take umbrage, and the phrase suggests the offence was chosen rather than caused. The Latin behind it is shadow, so taking umbrage is being put in somebody's shade.
1nounumbrageOffence taken at something said or done.
“She took umbrage at his comment about her cooking and left the table.”
umbrage is an offence.
The Latin is shadow, the same shade an umbrella makes. To take umbrage is to feel a shadow fall over you at what was said.
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Latin umbraticus means in the shade, from umbra, a shadow.
Latin
umbrāticus — in the shade
Old French
ombrage
Middle French
ombrage — umbrage
English, today
umbrage
Built from
From Middle French ombrage (“umbrage”), from Old French ombrage, from Latin umbrāticus (“in the shade”), from umbra (“shadow, shade”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA