Etymology

nigredo

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Today it means: A process of putrefaction or decomposition, one of the four major stages of the alchemical magnum opus. Full definition →

Latin nigrēdō
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  1. Latin · borrowed fromnigrēdō“blackness”
  2. English todaynigredo

From Latin nigrēdō (“blackness”).

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