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Old Spanish
Etymology
From Latin obscūritās, from obscūrus (“dark”).
Pronunciation
Noun
oscuridat f (usually uncountable)
- darkness, dark
c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 15r:Dixo nr̃o ſẽnor amoẏſen. Tiẽt tu mano alos cielos. ⁊ ſera oſcuridat.- Our Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the heavens, and there will be darkness.”
c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 24r:[…] ⁊ non a en ſi ninguna obſcuridat. nin otra coſa quel embargue la color.- And it has within itself no darkness, nor anything else that could obscure its color.
- Idem, f. 79r.
Piedra es que deſſeca mucho. ⁊ retiene. ⁊ tuelle la oſcuridat del uiſo.- A stone that dries and retains a lot, and that removes darkness from eyesight.
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