Latin search results for: tenebra

#1

noun

  • declension: 1st declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. concealment
  2. dark corner
  3. darkness (pl.), obscurity
  4. gloom
  5. ignorance
  6. night
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Very frequent, in all Elementry Latin books, top 1000+ words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#2

verb

  • conjugation: 3rd conjugation
  • voice: intransitive

Definitions:

  1. become dark
  2. grow dark
  • Age: Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
  • Area: Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#3

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation

Definitions:

  1. darken, make dark
  • Age: Latin not in use in Classical times (6-10th centuries) Christian
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)