Pronounced: KAT-suhn-jah-muhr, noun
Notes: A longish word, but I don’t know it
Yesterday’s word
The word tenebrous means “dark, gloomy, or obscure”
First usage
Our word came into English in the early 1400s
Background / Comments
It’s a nice word to use as a substitute. Our word came from the Old French tenebreus, which came from the Latin word tenebrosus (dark), which came from tenebrae (darkness).
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