tebras

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Galician

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Etymology

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13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese tẽevras (Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin tenebrae, tenebrās. Cognate with Portuguese trevas and Spanish tinieblas.

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Noun

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tebras f pl (plural only)

  1. darkness, absence of light
    • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 679:
      Senor, pela tua morte somos liures da grande escuridade et teeura en que eramos, porlo pecado de nossos primeyros padres
      Lord, by your dead we are free of the big obscurity and darkness where we were because of the sin of our first parents
  2. (figurative) solitude, isolation
  3. (figurative) ignorance

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