ténébreux
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]First known attestation circa 1100 as tenebrus. Borrowed from Latin tenebrōsus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]ténébreux (feminine ténébreuse, masculine plural ténébreux, feminine plural ténébreuses)
- tenebrous; obscure; mysterious; stygian
- (of a person) saturnine; moody, somber, melancholic
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “ténébreux”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.