ETYMOLOGY
from Old French tenebrus, modern French tenebreux, Provencal tenebros,
Spanish, Italian tenebroso, from Latin tenebrosus (dark, gloomy)
EXAMPLE
“… The name of thys lady was callyd Prescience.
She neuer left Vyce, ne noon that wold hym folow,
Tyll they wer commyttyd by the diuine sentence
All to peyne perpetuell and infynyte sorow.
Ryghtwysnes went to see that no man shuld hem borow.
Thus all entretyd sharpely were they, tyll Cerberus
Had hem beshut withyn hys gates tenebrus. …”
From: The Assembly of Gods:
or, The Accord of Reason and Sensuality in the Fear of Death
By John Lydgate, c1420
PRONUNCIATION
TEN-uh-bruhss
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