Etymology

tenebrific

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Today it means: Producing darkness, obscuring; (loosely) gloomy. Full definition →

New Latin tenebrificus ← Latin tenebrae
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromtenebrae“darkness”
  2. New Latin · borrowed fromtenebrificus
  3. English todaytenebrific

From New Latin tenebrificus, from Latin tenebrae (“darkness”) + -i- + -ficus (“making, causing”).

Words from the same roots

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