Etymology

tenebrose

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Today it means: Dark, tenebrous. Full definition →

Middle English tenebrose ← Old French tenebros ← Latin tenebrōsus
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromtenebrōsus“dark, gloomy”
  2. Old French · derived fromtenebros
  3. Middle English · inherited fromtenebrose
  4. English todaytenebrose

From Middle English tenebrose, from Old French tenebros, from Latin tenebrōsus (“dark, gloomy”).

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishtenebrose all →

tenebrous

Latintenebrōsus all →

tenebroustenebrism

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