tremor

See also: Tremor and trémor

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman tremour, from Old French tremor, from Latin tremor.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈtɹɛmɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛmə(ɹ)

Noun

tremor (plural tremors)

  1. A shake, quiver, or vibration.
    She felt a tremor in her stomach before going on stage.
    1. 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?

Translations

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Verb

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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Latin

Etymology

From tremō.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtre.mor/, [ˈtrɛ.mɔr]

Noun

tremor m (genitive tremōris); third declension

  1. trembling, quaking

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative tremor tremōrēs
genitive tremōris tremōrum
dative tremōrī tremōribus
accusative tremōrem tremōrēs
ablative tremōre tremōribus
vocative tremor tremōrēs

Descendants

Verb

tremor

  1. first-person singular present passive indicative of tremō

References

  • 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

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman tremour, Old French tremour.

Noun

tremor (plural tremors)

  1. terror; great fear

Descendants

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin tremor, possibly borrowed.

Noun

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

  1. terror; great fear

Descendants

  • English: tremor (borrowed)
  • French: trémeur

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese tremor, from Latin tremor.

Pronunciation

Noun

tremor m (plural tremores)

  1. tremor
  2. agitation

Spanish

Etymology

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].

Noun

tremor m (plural tremores)

  1. tremor, trembling

References

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