terremoto
Galician edit
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin terraemotus.
Noun edit
terremoto m (plural terremotos)
Italian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin terraemotus.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
terremoto m (plural terremoti)
- (geology) earthquake, quake
- Synonym: sisma
- (figurative) havoc, chaos, uproar
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Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin terraemotus, from terrae (“earth”) + mōtus (“movement”).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: ter‧re‧mo‧to
Noun edit
terremoto m (plural terremotos) (Brazilian spelling)
- (seismology) earthquake
- Synonyms: abalo, abalo sísmico, sismo, tremor, tremor de terra
- Coordinate term: maremoto
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian terremoto, or borrowed from Latin terraemotus.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /tereˈmoto/ [t̪e.reˈmo.t̪o]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -oto
- Syllabification: te‧rre‧mo‧to
Noun edit
terremoto m (plural terremotos)
- earthquake
- Synonyms: seísmo, sismo, temblor de tierra, temblor
Further reading edit
- “terremoto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014