English Explanatory Dictionary

Tenebrae

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A Christian religious service celebrated by the Western Church on the evening before or early morning of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday, involving the gradual extinguishing of candles while a series of readings and psalms are chanted or recited.

Pronunciation

/ˈtɛnəˌbɹeɪ/ /ˈtɛnəˌbɹiː/

Word forms

Tenebrae Tenebræ

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin tenebrae (“shadows, darkness”).

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