tenebratio

Latin

Etymology

From tenebrō (“darken”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /te.neˈbraː.ti.oː/, [t̪ɛnɛˈbräːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /te.neˈbrat.t͡si.o/, [t̪eneˈbrät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

tenebrātiō f (genitive tenebrātiōnis); third declension

1. A darkening, obscuration.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tenebrātiō	tenebrātiōnēs
Genitive	tenebrātiōnis	tenebrātiōnum
Dative	tenebrātiōnī	tenebrātiōnibus
Accusative	tenebrātiōnem	tenebrātiōnēs
Ablative	tenebrātiōne	tenebrātiōnibus
Vocative	tenebrātiō	tenebrātiōnēs

Synonyms

• (darkening, obscuration): obscūrātiō

Related terms

Related terms

• tenebellae
• tenebrae
• tenebrārius
• tenebrescō
• tenebricō
• tenebricōsitās
• tenebricōsus
• tenebricus
• tenebriō
• tenebrō
• tenebrōsē
• tenebrōsus

References

• “tenebratio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tenebratio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• tenebratio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.