creperum

Related to creper (“dusky, dark”). Varro suggests the term was borrowed from Sabine.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkrɛ.pɛ.rũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkrɛː.pe.rum]

creperum n (genitive creperī); second declension

1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include: obscurity, doubt, darkness

   Synonym: nox

   • 116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, De Lingua Latina 6.5:

     Secundum hoc dicitur crepusculum a crepero: id vocabulum sumpserunt a Sabinis, unde veniunt Crepusci nominati Amiterno, qui eo tempore erant nati, ut Lucii prima luce in Reatino; crepusculum significat dubium; ab eo res dictae dubiae creperae, quod crepusculum dies etiam nunc sit an iam nox multis dubium.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • Isidore of Seville, Etymologiarum libri XX 5.31.6:

     Crepusculum est dubia lux. Nam creperum dubium dicimus, hoc est inter lucem et tenebras.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • Symmachus, Libri Decem Epistolarum 1.7:

     Frequens senatus maturrime in curiam veneramus, priusquam manifestus dies creperum noctis absolveret: forte rumor allatus

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• creper
• crepusculum m
• Crepuscus m

creperum

1. inflection of creper:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

• “creper”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• creperum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Annie Cecilia Burman (24 March 2018) De Lingua Sabina: A Reappraisal of the Sabine Glosses‎^[1], →DOI, pages 62-64