tremesco
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From tremō (“tremble, shake”) + -ēscō (inchoative).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /treˈmeːs.koː/, [t̪rɛˈmeːs̠koː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /treˈmes.ko/, [t̪reˈmɛsko]
Verb edit
tremēscō (present infinitive tremēscere); third conjugation, no perfect or supine stem
- to begin to tremble, shake
- (transitive) to dread
Conjugation edit
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Descendants edit
- Lombard: stremí, stremísser
- Old Galician-Portuguese: estremecer
- Galician: estremecer
- Portuguese: estremecer
- Spanish: estremecer
References edit
- “tremesco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tremesco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tremesco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette