Etymology

Tenebrae

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Today it means: A Christian religious service celebrated by the Western Church on the evening before or early morning of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday, involving the gradual extinguishing of candles while a series of readings and psalms are chanted or recited. Full definition →

Latin tenebrae
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  1. Latin · learned borrowing fromtenebrae“shadows, darkness”
  2. English todayTenebrae

Learned borrowing from Latin tenebrae (“shadows, darkness”).

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