tremor

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See also: Tremor and trémor

English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle English tremour (fright), from Anglo-Norman tremour and Old French tremor, from Latin tremor.

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Noun[edit]

tremor (plural tremors)

  1. A shake, quiver, or vibration.
    She felt a tremor in her stomach before going on stage.
    1. (medicine) A rhythmic, uncontrollable shaking of all or part of the body due to partial muscle contractions.
      The optometrist has been losing patients ever since he developed tremors in his hand.
  2. An earthquake.
    Did you feel the tremor this morning?

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Verb[edit]

tremor (third-person singular simple present tremors, present participle tremoring, simple past and past participle tremored)

  1. To shake or quiver excessively and rapidly or involuntarily; to tremble.

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Galician[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Galician-Portuguese tremor (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin tremor.

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Noun[edit]

tremor m (plural tremores)

  1. tremor
  2. agitation

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References[edit]

  • tremor” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • tremor” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • tremor” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • tremor” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Indonesian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English tremor, from Middle English tremour (fright), from Anglo-Norman tremour and Old French tremor, from Latin tremor.

Pronunciation[edit]

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Noun[edit]

tremor

  1. (medicine) A rhythmic, uncontrollable shaking of all or part of the body due to partial muscle contractions; tremor.

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Interlingua[edit]

Noun[edit]

tremor (plural tremores)

  1. (medicine) tremor

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From tremō +‎ -or.

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Noun[edit]

tremor m (genitive tremōris); third declension

  1. trembling, quaking, tremor

Declension[edit]

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tremor tremōrēs
Genitive tremōris tremōrum
Dative tremōrī tremōribus
Accusative tremōrem tremōrēs
Ablative tremōre tremōribus
Vocative tremor tremōrēs

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Verb[edit]

tremor

  1. first-person singular present passive indicative of tremō

References[edit]

  • tremor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tremor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tremor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

tremor

  1. Alternative form of tremour

Old French[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Latin tremor, probably borrowed.

Noun[edit]

tremor oblique singularm (oblique plural tremors, nominative singular tremors, nominative plural tremor)

  1. terror; great fear

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Portuguese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Galician-Portuguese tremor, from Latin tremor.

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  • Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
  • Hyphenation: tre‧mor

Noun[edit]

tremor m (plural tremores)

  1. tremor
  2. agitation

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Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old Spanish tremor (attested in El Cid), from Latin tremor. Although originally inherited, it was later used in some senses as a Latinism or Italianism (cf. tremore).[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /tɾeˈmoɾ/ [t̪ɾeˈmoɾ]
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: tre‧mor

Noun[edit]

tremor m (plural tremores)

  1. tremor, trembling

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