Tenebrae

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The matins and lauds for the last three days of Holy Week, commemorating the sufferings and death of Christ, — usually sung on the afternoon or evening of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, instead of on the following days.

Related Words

tenebrae
tĕnē̆brae, ārum (collat. form tĕnē̆-bra, ae, Lampr. Commod. 16; Ap. Met. 5, 20, 16), f. [akin to San...

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
tenebrae
tenebrae ārum, f darkness, gloom: obscurato sole tenebrae factae: tenebras et solitudinem nacti: te...

An Elementary Latin Dictionary