Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• obscuridat, escuridat

Noun

oscuridat f (usually uncountable)

1. darkness, dark
   • 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.

Related terms

• oscuro ‎(“dark”)

Descendants

• Spanish: oscuridad (in part, see also escuridat)