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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)
- (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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