tenebra.
darkness (pl.), obscurity; night; dark corner; ignorance; concealment; gloom;
Meaning & usage
singular of tenebrae (“darkness, shadow; ignorance; concealment”)
Where this word comes from
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).
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