tremuoto
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Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Likely to make the word sound like tremare (“to shake”), possibly a folk etymology.
Noun[edit]
tremuoto m (plural tremuoti)
- (obsolete, Dantesque) Alternative form of terremoto (“earthquake”)[1][2]
- mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XII”, in Inferno [Hell][1], lines 4–6; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][2], 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, […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)