tremor

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See also: Tremor and trémor

English

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Etymology

From Middle English tremour (“fright”), from Anglo-Norman tremour and Old French tremor, from Latin tremor.

Pronunciation

Noun

tremor (plural tremors)

  1. A shake, quiver, or vibration.
    She felt a tremor in her stomach before going on stage.
    1. (medicine) A rhythmic, uncontrollable shaking of all or part of the body due to partial muscle contractions.
      The optometrist has been losing patients ever since he developed tremors in his hand.
  2. An earthquake.
    Did you feel the tremor this morning?

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Verb

tremor (third-person singular simple present tremors, present participle tremoring, simple past and past participle tremored)

  1. To shake or quiver excessively and rapidly or involuntarily; to tremble.
    • 2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 17, in Small Island‎, London: Review, page 188:
      The ground tremored under their big boots.

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English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *trem-‎ (0 c, 23 e)

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese tremor (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin tremor.

Pronunciation

Noun

tremor m (plural tremores)

  1. tremor
  2. agitation

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References

  • “tremor” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “tremor” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “tremor” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “tremor” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Indonesian

Etymology

From English tremor, from Middle English tremour (“fright”), from Anglo-Norman tremour and Old French tremor, from Latin tremor.

Pronunciation

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Noun

tremor

  1. (medicine) A rhythmic, uncontrollable shaking of all or part of the body due to partial muscle contractions; tremor.

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Interlingua

Noun

tremor (plural tremores)

  1. (medicine) tremor

Latin

Etymology

From tremō +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

Noun

tremor m (genitive tremōris); third declension

  1. trembling, quaking, tremor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tremor tremōrēs
Genitive tremōris tremōrum
Dative tremōrī tremōribus
Accusative tremōrem tremōrēs
Ablative tremōre tremōribus
Vocative tremor tremōrēs

Descendants

Verb

tremor

  1. first-person singular present passive indicative of tremō

References

  • “tremor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “tremor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tremor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Middle English

Noun

tremor

  1. Alternative form of tremour

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin tremor, probably borrowed.

Noun

tremor oblique singular, m (oblique plural tremors, nominative singular tremors, nominative plural tremor)

  1. terror; great fear

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese tremor, from Latin tremor.

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
  • Hyphenation: tre‧mor

Noun

tremor m (plural tremores)

  1. tremor
  2. agitation

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Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish tremor (attested in El Cid), from Latin tremor. Although originally inherited, it was later used in some senses as a Latinism or Italianism (cf. tremore).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɾeˈmoɾ/
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: tre‧mor

Noun

tremor m (plural tremores)

  1. tremor, trembling

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References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

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