Fromobscūrus(“shadowy, obscure”) +‎-o.

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): /obˈskuː.roː/,[ɔpˈs̠kuːroː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): /obˈsku.ro/,[obˈskuːro]

obscūrō (present infinitiveobscūrāre,perfect activeobscūrāvī,supineobscūrātum);first conjugation

1. todarken,obscure
2. toconceal,hide
3. (figuratively) toblind,becloud understanding
4. (figuratively) to renderindistinct
5. (of speech) tomutter,pronounce indistinctly
6. tosuppress, keepunknown

obscūrō

1. dative/ablativemasculine/neutersingular ofobscūrus

• “obscuro”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “obscuro”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• obscuro inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
  • the sun, moon, is eclipsed:sol (luna)deficit, obscuratur
    
  • to render obscure, eclipse a person:obscurare alicuius gloriam, laudem, famam (notobscurare aliquem)
    
  • nothing will ever make me forgetful of him:memoriam eius nulla umquam delebit (obscurabit) oblivio (Fam. 2. 1)
    
  • to be forgotten, pass into oblivion:memoria alicuius rei obscuratur, obliteratur, evanescit
    
  • to pronounce the syllables distinctly:litteras exprimere (opp.obscurare)
    
  • (ambiguous) of humble, obscure origin:humili, obscuro loco natus
    

Learned borrowing fromLatinobscūrus.Doublet ofescuro.

• Rhymes:-uɾu
• Hyphenation:obs‧cu‧ro

obscuro (feminineobscura,masculine pluralobscuros,feminine pluralobscuras,comparable,comparativemaisobscuro,superlativeomaisobscuroorobscuríssimo)

1. dark,gloomy
2. obscure

• obscuramente

• “obscuro”, inDicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam,2008–2025

Borrowed fromLatinobscurus.

• IPA^(key): /obsˈkuɾo/[oβ̞sˈku.ɾo]
• Rhymes:-uɾo
• Syllabification:obs‧cu‧ro

obscuro (feminineobscura,masculine pluralobscuros,feminine pluralobscuras)

1. (literary or rare)Alternative form ofoscuro

• “obscuro”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

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