tremuoto

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Italian

Etymology

Likely to make the word sound like tremare (to shake), possibly a folk etymology.

Noun

tremuoto m (plural tremuoti)

  1. (obsolete, Dantesque) Alternative form of terremoto (earthquake)[1][2]
    • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XII”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 4–6; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Qual è quella ruina che nel fianco / di qua da Trento l'Adice percosse, / o per tremoto o per sostegno manco, []
      Like that rockslide which struck the Adige, on the side facing Trento, due to either an earthquake or faulty support [a landslide]

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