întunereca

Romanian

Alternative forms
  • întunerica

Etymology

Probably from Vulgar Latin *intenebricāre (attested in Medieval Latin), from Latin tenebricus. The original form may have been *întenerica before being influenced phonetically by or confused with the probably unrelated but coincidentally similar întuneca. [1]

Verb

a întunereca (third-person singular present întunerecă, past participle întunerecat) 1st conj.

  1. (obsolete) to darken

Synonyms

References
  1. Romanian Explanatory Dictionary http://dexonline.ro/definitie/%C3%AEntuneca
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