The corpus record — Latin

tenebricosus

tenebricosus · adj

full of darkness

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Where it lives

In P. Vatinium testem interrogatio 1 · 2.23/10k
De Provinciis Consularibus In Senatu 1 · 1.95/10k
In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 1 · 0.92/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Lucullus 1 · 0.56/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 2 · 0.17/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

tĕnē^brĭcōsus — Lewis & Short

tĕnē^brĭcōsus, a, um, adj.tenebricus,

I full of darkness or gloom, shrouded in darkness, dark, gloomy (rare but class.): esse sensus non obscuros sed tenebricosos, Cic. Ac. 2, 23, 73: popina, id. Pis. 8, 18: libidines, id. Prov. Cons. 4, 8: tenebricosissimum tempus, id. Vatin. 5, 11: iter, Cat. 3, 11: locus angustus et tenebricosus, Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 19.

In the wild

tenebricosum Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 11_13.86.4
tenebricosa Cicero, In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 18
tenebricosum Catullus, Carmina lyrics.3.11
tenebricosam Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 5.50.2
tenebricosissimum Cicero, In P. Vatinium testem interrogatio 11.p1
tenebricosos Cicero, Lucullus 73

6 of 8 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.