tenebra
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tenebra f (plural tenebres)
- profound darkness
- L'autèntic drama no habita en el cor de les tenebres, sinó en les tenebres del cor.
- Authentic drama doesn't reside in the heart of darkness but in the darkness of the heart.
- (in the plural, Christianity) Tenebrae (Holy Week religious service)
Usage notes edit
- Used especially in the plural
Further reading edit
- “tenebra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “tenebra” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tenebra f (plural tenebre)
References edit
- ^ tenebre in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Arose by dissimilation from earlier *temebrai, arisen from Proto-Italic *temasro, from Proto-Indo-European *temH-s-ro (“dark”), a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *temH- (“dark”); cognate with Sanskrit तमिस्र (tamisra), Avestan 𐬙𐬄𐬚𐬭𐬀 (tąθra), Middle Persian [script needed] (tʾr /tār/, “darkness”), Ossetian тар (tar), and Old Church Slavonic тьмьнъ (tĭmĭnŭ).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈte.ne.bra/, [ˈt̪ɛnɛbrä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈte.ne.bra/, [ˈt̪ɛːnebrä]
Noun edit
tenebra f (genitive tenebrae); first declension
Usage notes edit
Almost always used in the plural rather than the singular.
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | tenebra | tenebrae |
Genitive | tenebrae | tenebrārum |
Dative | tenebrae | tenebrīs |
Accusative | tenebram | tenebrās |
Ablative | tenebrā | tenebrīs |
Vocative | tenebra | tenebrae |
Descendants edit
- Galician: tebras
- Portuguese: treva
- Spanish: tiniebla
- → Catalan: tenebra
- → French: ténèbres
- → Romanian: tenebră
- → English: tenebrose, tenebrous
- → Italian: tenebra
- → Portuguese: tênebra
References edit
- tenebra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- tenebra in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “tenebrae”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 512