trepidant

See also: trépidant

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin trepidāntem.

Adjective

trepidant (comparative more trepidant, superlative most trepidant)

1. (rare) Trembling with fear or emotion.
   • 1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin 2010, p. 131:

     The good old Duke – no, the General, called me all trepidant to him, smiled, asked my age and service, liked the wire, and passed into the village.

2. (medicine, archaic) Marked by trembling or tremor.

Derived terms

• paroxysmal trepidant abasia

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) trepidant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of trepidō