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8-letter words (1 found)

TENEBRAE,

6-letter words (13 found)

BANTER,BARNET,BEATEN,BEATER,BERATE,ENTERA,ENTREE,ETERNE,NEATER,RATEEN,REBATE,RETENE,TEENER,

5-letter words (21 found)

ANTRE,ARENE,ARETE,BEARE,BENET,BERET,BRANE,BRANT,BRENT,EARNT,EATEN,EATER,ENATE,ENTER,RANEE,REATE,RENTE,TABER,TEENE,TERNE,TREEN,

4-letter words (49 found)

ABER,ABET,ANTE,ARET,BANE,BANT,BARE,BARN,BATE,BEAN,BEAR,BEAT,BEEN,BEER,BEET,BENE,BENT,BERE,BETA,BETE,BRAE,BRAN,BRAT,BREE,BREN,EARN,ERNE,ETEN,ETNA,NABE,NARE,NEAR,NEAT,NETE,RANT,RATE,REAN,REEN,RENT,RETE,TANE,TARE,TARN,TEAR,TEEN,TEER,TENE,TERN,TREE,

3-letter words (42 found)

ANE,ANT,ARB,ARE,ART,ATE,BAE,BAN,BAR,BAT,BEE,BEN,BET,BRA,EAN,EAR,EAT,EEN,ENE,ERA,ERE,ERN,ETA,NAB,NAE,NAT,NEB,NEE,NET,RAN,RAT,REB,REE,REN,RET,TAB,TAE,TAN,TAR,TEA,TEE,TEN,

2-letter words (17 found)

AB,AE,AN,AR,AT,BA,BE,EA,EE,EN,ER,ET,NA,NE,RE,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 144 words from tenebrae according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of tenebrae

tenebrae

Latin

Etymology

With regressive dissimilation (*m-b > n-b) from *temabrāi, nominalized feminine plural from Proto-Italic *temazros (“dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *temH-(e)s-ro-, from *temH-. Related to temere.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈte.ne.brae̯/, [ˈt̪ɛnɛbräe̯]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈte.ne.bre/, [ˈt̪ɛːnebre]
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /teˈneb.rae̯/, [t̪ɛˈnɛbräe̯]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /teˈneb.re/, [t̪eˈnɛbre]

Noun

tenebrae f pl (genitive tenebrārum); first declension

  1. darkness, especially the darkness of night
    Antonym: lūx
  2. (poetic) shadow of death
  3. prison, dungeon
    Synonym: carcer
  4. (by extension) gloom or darkness of the mind

Declension

First-declension noun, plural only.

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References

  • “tenebrae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “tenebrae”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tenebrae in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • tenebrae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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