tenebrose

From Middle English tenebrose, from Old French tenebros, from Latin tenebrōsus (“dark, gloomy”).[1]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛnɪbɹəʊs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛnəbɹoʊs/

tenebrose (comparative more tenebrose, superlative most tenebrose) (uncommon)

1. Dark, tenebrous.
2. (figuratively) Obscure; obtuse; incomprehensible.
3. (figuratively) Morally, culturally or mentally benighted; backward; uncivilized.
4. (figuratively) Gloomy.

• Much less common than tenebrous.[2]

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “tenebrose, a.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

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tenebrose

1. feminine plural of tenebroso

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /te.neˈbroː.se/, [t̪ɛnɛˈbroːs̠ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /te.neˈbro.se/, [t̪eneˈbrɔːs̬e]

tenebrōse

1. vocative masculine singular of tenebrōsus

• “tenebrose”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• tenebrus

From Anglo-Norman tenebrous, from Latin tenebrōsus.

tenebrose

1. dark, gloomy

• English: tenebrous

• “tenebrọ̄se, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.