zemljotres

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Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Nominalized form of zemlja (earth) +‎ tresti (shake), calque of Latin terrae motus or German Erdbeben.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /zêmʎotreːs/
  • Hyphenation: zem‧ljo‧tres

Noun[edit]

zȅmljotrēs m (Cyrillic spelling зе̏мљотре̄с)

  1. (regional) earthquake
    Synonym: pòtres

Declension[edit]

References[edit]

  • Skok, Petar (1973) “zemljotres”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 3 (poni² – Ž), Zagreb: JAZU, page 650