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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *trem- (“to tremble”). Cognate with Tocharian B tremi (“anger”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tró.mos/ → /ˈtro.mos/ → /ˈtro.mos/
Noun
τρόμος • (trómos) m (genitive τρόμου); second declension
- trembling, tremor, shudder
- fear, terror
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- “τρόμος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- τρόμος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “τρόμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- fear idem, page 312.
- fright idem, page 345.
- horror idem, page 406.
- palpitation idem, page 590.
- palsy idem, page 590.
- quaking idem, page 662.
- quaver idem, page 664.
- quiver idem, page 667.
- shaking idem, page 761.
- shiver idem, page 766.
- shudder idem, page 771.
- start idem, page 811.
- terror idem, page 863.
- thrill idem, page 870.
- trembling idem, page 893.
- tremor idem, page 893.
- unsteadiness idem, page 933.
- vibration idem, page 950.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek τρόμος (trómos, “trembling, quaking, quivering”), from Proto-Indo-European *trem- (“to tremble”).
Compare Mariupol Greek тре́мус (trjémus).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɾo.mos/
- Hyphenation: τρό‧μος
Noun
τρόμος • (trómos) m (uncountable)
- terror, extreme fear
Ο τρόμος δεν επιτρέπεται να καταπολεμάται με τρόμο.- O trómos den epitrépetai na katapolemátai me trómo.
- Terror must not be fought with terror.
- (medicine) trembling, tremor
Declension
τρόμος
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singular
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| nominative
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τρόμος •
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| genitive
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τρόμου •
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| accusative
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τρόμο •
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| vocative
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τρόμε •
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- ατρόμαχτος (atrómachtos, “not frightened”)
- άτρομος (átromos, “not frightened”)
- έντρομος (éntromos, “very frightened”)
- κατατρομαγμένος (katatromagménos, participle)
- κατατρομάζω (katatromázo, “frighten very much”)
- ο φόβος και ο τρόμος (o fóvos kai o trómos)
- περίτρομος (perítromos, “very frightened”)
- τρόμαγμα n (trómagma, “fright”)
- τρομαγμένος (tromagménos, “frightened”)
- τρομάζω (tromázo, “to frighten, to be frightened”)
- τρομακτικός (tromaktikós, “frightening”)
- τρομάρα f (tromára, “extreme terror”)
- τρομαχτικός (tromachtikós, “frightening”)
- τρομερός (tromerós, “terrible”)
- τρομοκρατημένος (tromokratiménos, “terrified”)
- τρομοκράτης m (tromokrátis, “terrorist”)
- τρομοκράτηση f (tromokrátisi, “terrorising, bullying”)
- τρομοκρατία f (tromokratía, “terrorism”)
- τρομοκρατικός (tromokratikós, “terrorist”)
- τρομοκράτισσα f (tromokrátissa, “terrorist”)
- τρομοκρατούμαι (tromokratoúmai, “to be terrified”)
- τρομοκρατώ (tromokrató, “to terrorise, to intimidate”)
- and see: τρέμω (trémo)
Further reading
- “τρόμος”, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998