The corpus record — Latin

tenebro

tenebro · v. a

to make dark

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Res Gestae 2 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

tĕnē^bro — Lewis & Short

tĕnē^bro, āre, v. a.id.,

I to make dark, to darken (post-class.): vesperā semitam tenebrante, App. M. 8, p. 208, 5; Amm. 19, 8, 5; Lact. 4, 19.

In the wild

tenebrante Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 25.8.18
tenebrante Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 19.8.5
tenebrante Apuleius, Metamorphoses 8.15

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.