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tenebrosus

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(adjective) : tĕnēbrōsus, a, um, tenebrae
* Dark, gloomy (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
* Lit.: aëra dimovit tenebrosum et dispu lit umbras,Verg. A. 5, 839: palus,id. ib. 6, 107: Tartara,Ov. M. 1, 113: sedes,id. ib. 5, 359: specus tenebroso caecus hiatu,id. ib. 7, 409: carcer,Luc. 2, 79: balnea Grylli,Mart. 1, 60, 3 (cf. id. 2, 14, 13): caeruleo tenebrosa situ,Val. Fl. 3, 400: silentia,Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 329. — Comp.: carcer,Tert. Anim. 1 fin. — Subst.: tĕnēbrōsum, i, n., the dark, Lact. 7, 4, 12; and plur.: in tenebrosis,Vulg. Thren. 3, 6.
* Trop.: cor,Prud. Apoth. 195: tenebrosissimus error,Cod. Just. 6, 43, 3 med. — * Adv.: tĕ-nēbrōsē, darkly, Hier. in Ion. 4, 6 (with occulte).
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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