земљотрес

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Nominalized form of зѐмља (earth) +‎ -о- +‎ тре̑сти (shake), calque of Latin terrae motus or German Erdbeben.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /zêmʎotreːs/
  • Hyphenation: зем‧љо‧трес

Noun

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зе̏мљотре̄с m (Latin spelling zȅmljotrēs)

  1. earthquake

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References

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  • Skok, Petar (1973) “земљотрес”, 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