tenebrosus

Latin

Etymology

From tenebrae (“darkness”) +‎ -ōsus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /te.neˈbroː.sus/, [t̪ɛnɛˈbroːsʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /te.neˈbro.sus/, [t̪eneˈbrɔːs̬us]

Adjective

tenebrōsus (feminine tenebrōsa, neuter tenebrōsum, comparative tenebrōsior, superlative tenebrōsissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. dark, gloomy

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	tenebrōsus	tenebrōsa	tenebrōsum		tenebrōsī	tenebrōsae	tenebrōsa
genitive	tenebrōsī	tenebrōsae	tenebrōsī		tenebrōsōrum	tenebrōsārum	tenebrōsōrum
dative	tenebrōsō	tenebrōsae	tenebrōsō		tenebrōsīs
accusative	tenebrōsum	tenebrōsam	tenebrōsum		tenebrōsōs	tenebrōsās	tenebrōsa
ablative	tenebrōsō	tenebrōsā	tenebrōsō		tenebrōsīs
vocative	tenebrōse	tenebrōsa	tenebrōsum		tenebrōsī	tenebrōsae	tenebrōsa

Related terms

• tenebellae
• tenebrae
• tenebrārius
• tenebrātiō
• tenebrescō
• tenebricō
• tenebricōsus
• tenebricus
• tenebriō

Descendants

• Catalan: tenebrós
• English: tenebrous
• French: ténébreux
• Italian: tenebroso
• Old Galician-Portuguese: tẽevroso
  • Galician: tebroso
  • Portuguese: trevoso
• → Portuguese: tenebroso (learned)
• Spanish: tenebroso

References

• “tenebrosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tenebrosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tenebrosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.