nigredo

== English == === Etymology === From Latin nigrēdō (“blackness”). === Pronunciation === === Noun === nigredo (uncountable) (alchemy) A process of putrefaction or decomposition, one of the four major stages of the alchemical magnum opus. Synonym: melanosis Coordinate terms: albedo, citrinitas, rubedo (psychology) A term in Jungian psychology referring to mental negativity. === Anagrams === Doering, Gironde, Negroid, eroding, groined, ignored, negroid, redoing == Latin == === Etymology === From niger +‎ -ēdō. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [nɪˈɡreː.doː], [nɪɡˈreː.doː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [niˈɡrɛː.do], [niɡˈrɛː.do] === Noun === nigrēdō f (genitive nigrēdinis); third declension blackness ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== → English: nigredo === References === “nigredo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “nigredo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.