The corpus record — Latin

tenebrosus

tenebrosus · adj

dark

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Where it lives

Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
Contra Symmachum 5 · 4.16/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 2 · 2.87/10k
Apotheosis 2 · 2.7/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Peristephanon Liber 2 · 1.14/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 2 · 0.81/10k
Thebais 4 · 0.64/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

tĕnē^brōsus — Lewis & Short

tĕnē^brōsus, a, um, adj.tenebrae,

I dark, gloomy (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

I 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.: tĕnē^brōsum, i, n., the dark, Lact. 7, 4, 12; and plur.: in tenebrosis, Vulg. Thren. 3, 6. —

II Trop.: cor, Prud. Apoth. 195: tenebrosissimus error, Cod. Just. 6, 43, 3 med. — * Adv.: tĕ-nē^brōsē, darkly, Hier. in Ion. 4, 6 (with occulte).

In the wild

tenebrosa Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 2.1.704
tenebrosi Seneca, Agamemnon 1
tenebrosus Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 1.1.244
tenebroso Prudentius, Apotheosis 3.127
tenebrosa Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 3.53
tenebrosa Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.113

6 of 39 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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