tenebra
Latin
noun
Definitions
- (in the plural) darkness, shadow, gloom, obscurity
- ignorance
- concealment
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Italic *temasro inherited from Proto-Indo-European *temH-s-ro (dark), *temH- (dark, enthralled, confused, stunned).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*temH-
Gloss
dark, enthralled, confused, stunned
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
暗, 闇, 冥
Emoji
🌑 🕶️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- tamas English
- *intenebricāre Latin
- abstēmius Latin
- temetum Latin
- tenebram Latin
- tenebricosus Latin
- tenebricus Latin
- tiniebla Spanish, Castilian
- tinieblas Spanish, Castilian
- *temH- Proto-Indo-European
- *temH-s-ro Proto-Indo-European
- *tm̥H-ró- Proto-Indo-European
- *tm̥h₁-ró- Proto-Indo-European
- तमस् Sanskrit
- *tьmьnъ Proto-Slavic
- tenebra Catalan, Valencian
- Tamuxe Galician
- Támega Galician
- Támoga Galician
- întuneric Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- تار Persian
- *þimstr gmw-pro
- *tāma Proto-Turkic
- *temeslos Proto-Celtic
- *tā- Proto-Celtic
- ntunearic Aromanian
- ãntunearic Aromanian
- *temasro Proto-Italic
- томити Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- тьмьнъ Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- там Mongolian
- tamsa Lithuanian
- *támas Proto-Indo-Aryan
- тамуҡ Bashkir
- tiniebra Old Spanish
- تور Pashto, Pushto