seismic

English

Etymology

Based on Ancient Greek σεισμός (seismós, “shaking, earthquake”) + -ic, equivalent to seismo- +‎ -ic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪzmɪk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (Philippines) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪsmɪk/, /ˈsismɪk/
• Rhymes: -aɪzmɪk

Adjective

seismic (not comparable)

1. Related to, or caused by an earthquake or other vibration of the Earth.

   seismic activity

2. (of a place) Subject to earthquakes.

   a seismic area

3. (figuratively) Of very large or widespread effect.
   • 2018 January 27, Dafydd Pritchard, “Newport 1 - 1 Tottenham Hotspur”, in BBC Sport‎^[1], archived from the original on 24 March 2018:

     With Spurs having avoided a seismic Cup upset, Newport's heroic display will be rewarded with a lucrative replay at Wembley.

   • 2023 February 22, Sir Michael Holden, “Comment: A farewell to micro-management”, in RAIL, number 977, page 3:

     But the most seismic change is the shift to being supportive of open access. In practice, most of the industry has collectively opposed this for the past 25 years. The Department for Transport has been particularly hostile, seeing it as little more than cherry-picking.

   • 2024 March 17, Ilan Stavans, “Will Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum, a Jewish Woman, Blaze a Trail or Follow One?”, in The New York Times‎^[2], archived from the original on 1 June 2024:

     That the two leading candidates are women is seismic in a country imbued with machismo, where gender violence is rampant and the fight for women’s rights has been especially sluggish under the incumbent president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known as AMLO, who is limited by Mexico’s Constitution to one six-year term.

Derived terms

• anaseismic
• antiseismic
• archaeoseismic
• aseismic
• asteroseismic
• astroseismic
• bradyseismic
• coseismic
• helioseismic
• interseismic
• isoseismic
• macroseismic
• microseismic
• nonseismic
• paleoseismic
• paraseismic
• peneseismic
• postseismic
• preseismic
• seismical
• seismically
• seismic bomb
• seismic damper
• seismic design
• seismicity
• seismic line
• seismic lithosphere
• seismic load
• seismic moment
• seismic performance
• seismic retrofit
• seismic risk
• seismics
• seismic sea wave
• seismic shift
• seismic stratigraphy
• seismic sustainability
• seismic wave
• seismic zoning
• seismograph
• seismology
• teleseismic
• vibroseis

Translations

related to, or caused by an earthquake or other vibration of the Earth

• Arabic: زِلْزَالِيّ m (zilzāliyy)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Asturian: sísmicu
• Belarusian: сейсмі́чны (sjejsmíčny)
• Bulgarian: земетръсен (zemetrăsen)
• Catalan: sísmic
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 地震的 (dìzhèn de)

• Czech: seizmický, seismický
• Danish: seismisk (da)
• Dutch: seismisch (nl)
• Esperanto: seisma, sisma
• Estonian: seismiline
• Finnish: seisminen
• French: sismique (fr)
• Galician: sísmico (gl) m
• Georgian: სეისმური (seismuri)
• German: seismisch (de)
• Greek: σεισμικός (el) (seismikós)
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: szeizmikus (hu)
• Icelandic: jarðskjálfta-
• Ido: sismala, sisma (io)
• Italian: sismico (it)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: sīsmicus (Contemporary Latin)
• Nepali: भूकम्पीय (bhūkampīya)
• Persian: زلزله‌ای (zelzele-'i)
• Polish: sejsmiczny (pl)
• Portuguese: sísmico (pt)
• Romanian: seismic (ro)
• Russian: сейсми́ческий (ru) (sejsmíčeskij)
• Spanish: sísmico
• Swedish: seismisk
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: sismik (tr)
• Ukrainian: сейсмі́чний (sejsmíčnyj)
• Vietnamese: địa chấn (vi)
• Welsh: crynfaol, seismig (cy)

subject to earthquakes

• Azerbaijani: zəlzələli
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 地震多發的 / 地震多发的 (dìzhèn duōfā de)

• Finnish: seisminen, maanjäristysaltis
• French: sismique (fr)
• Galician: sísmico (gl)
• Māori: rū (mi)

of very large or widespread effect

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 影響深遠的 / 影响深远的 (yǐngxiǎng shēnyuǎn de)

• Finnish: järisyttävä (fi)
• Galician: sísmico (gl)
• Polish: porażający

Romanian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *twey-?

Proto-Indo-European *tweys-

Proto-Indo-European *twéys-e-ti

Proto-Hellenic *tséihō

Ancient Greek σείω (seíō)

Proto-Indo-European *-mos

Proto-Indo-European *-mós

Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)

Ancient Greek σεισμός (seismós)bor.

French séisme

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Indo-European *-ikos

Proto-Italic *-ikos

Latin -icuslbor.

Old French -ique

Middle French -ique

French -ique

French séismiquebor.

Romanian seismic

Borrowed from French séismique. By surface analysis, seism + -ic.

Adjective

seismic m or n (feminine singular seismică, masculine plural seismici, feminine/neuter plural seismice)

1. seismic

Declension

Declension of seismic

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	seismic		seismică	seismici	seismice
	definite	seismicul		seismica	seismicii	seismicele
genitive- dative	indefinite	seismic		seismice	seismici	seismice
	definite	seismicului		seismicei	seismicilor	seismicelor