🔹 Deadjectival Nouns Ending in -edumbre

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The RAE treats -edumbre as a variant of the suffix -dumbre, forming a very small series of feminine nouns expressing qualities or states. All the members of this series are inherited Latinisms synchronically associated with Spanish adjectives.

The list is genuinely small, so these are essentially the examples recognized by the RAE, ordered approximately by current frequency.

#	Spanish Noun	Noun in English	Base Adjective	Base Adjective in English
1	mansedumbre	meekness; gentleness; docility	manso	meek; gentle; tame
2	podredumbre	rottenness; decay; corruption	podrido	rotten; decayed
3	reciedumbre	strength; robustness; vigor	recio	strong; robust; vigorous
4	dulcedumbre	sweetness; softness; gentleness	dulce	sweet; gentle
5	gravedumbre	difficulty; harshness (rare/obsolete)	grave	serious; severe; weighty
6	soledumbre	solitude; lonely/deserted place (obsolete)	solo	alone; solitary

Some important morphological changes:

manso → mansedumbre
recio → reciedumbre
podrido → podredumbre: RAE analyzes this with loss of -id-.
dulcedumbre, gravedumbre, soledumbre are obsolete or highly restricted; modern Spanish normally prefers dulzura/dulzor, gravedad, and soledad.

One important exclusion:

pesadumbre should not go in strict A-edumbre. The RAE analyzes it as pesado → pesad- + -dumbre, not as an -edumbre formation. Likewise, certidumbre and servidumbre contain the separate variant -idumbre.

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