tremor

See also: Tremor and trémor

English

Alternative forms

• tremour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English tremour (“fright”), from Anglo-Norman tremour and Old French tremor, from Latin tremor.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɛmə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɛmɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɛmə(ɹ)
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪmɚ/
  • Homophone: trimmer
  • Rhymes: -ɪmə(ɹ)
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹiːmə(ɹ)/

Noun

tremor (plural tremors)

1. A shake, quiver, or vibration.

   She felt a tremor in her stomach before going on stage.

   1. (medicine) 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?

Derived terms

• antitremor
• earth tremor
• essential tremor
• essential tremor
• harmonic tremor
• microtremor
• night tremor
• tremordominant
• tremorful
• tremorgenic
• tremorgram
• tremorgraph
• tremorgraphy
• tremorine
• tremorless
• tremorous

 

Translations

shake, quiver, or vibration

• Bulgarian: потръпване (bg) n (potrǎpvane)
• Chamicuro: ka'nakosilo
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 哆嗦 (zh) (duōsuo), 顫抖／颤抖 (zh) (chàndǒu or zhàndǒu), 發抖／发抖 (zh) (fādǒu), 顫慄／颤栗 (zh) (zhànlì), 震顫／震颤 (zh) (zhènchàn), 震動／震动 (zh) (zhèndòng)

• Czech: třes (cs) m, otřes m
• Emilian: tarmarî f, termarìa f, tarmarìa f, tarmarôla f,
• Finnish: väreily, vavahtelu, tärinä
• French: tremblement (fr) m, trépidation (fr) f
• Friulian: trimôr
• Galician: tremor m
• German: Zittern n
• Greek: τρεμούλα (el) f (tremoúla), ρίγος (el) n (rígos)
• Haitian Creole: tranbleman
• Hungarian: reszketés (hu), remegés (hu)
• Irish: creathán m
• Italian: tremore (it)
• Japanese: 震え (ふるえ, furue), 揺れ (ja) (ゆれ, yure)
• Korean: 떨림 (tteollim)
• Latin: tremor m
• Maori: ngāueue, wheoi
• Persian: لرزش (fa) (larzeš)
• Polish: drżenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: tremor (pt) m
• Russian: дрожь (ru) f (drožʹ), дрожа́ние (ru) n (drožánije)
• Sicilian: trimuri
• Spanish: temblor (es)
• Swedish: skakning (sv) c

uncontrollable bodily shaking

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• Bulgarian: тремор m (tremor)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 哆嗦 (zh) (duōsuo), 顫抖／颤抖 (zh) (chàndǒu or zhàndǒu), 發抖／发抖 (zh) (fādǒu), 顫慄／颤栗 (zh) (zhànlì), 震顫／震颤 (zh) (zhènchàn), 震動／震动 (zh) (zhèndòng)

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• Finnish: vapina, tärinä
• French: trémulation (fr) f, tremblement (fr) m, trépidation (fr) f
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• German: Tremor (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: τρόμος m (trómos)

• Hungarian: remegés (hu)
• Irish: crith m
• Japanese: 振戦, 震顫, 振顫 (ja) (しんせん, shinsen)
• Korean: 진전 (ko) (jinjeon)
• Latin: tremor m
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• Polish: drżenie (pl) n, tremor (pl) m
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earthquake

• Azerbaijani: təkan (az), yeraltı təkan
• Bulgarian: леко земетресение n (leko zemetresenie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 地震 (zh) (dìzhèn)

• Czech: otřes m
• Emilian: taramòt m, teremòt m
• Esperanto: tertremo, seismo, sismo (eo)
• Finnish: maan vavahtelu
• French: tremblement de terre (fr) m, secousse sismique f, trémor (fr) m, trépidation (fr) f
• German: Beben (de) n
• Greek: σεισμός (el) m (seismós)

  Ancient: σεισμός m (seismós)

• Hawaiian: ōlaʻi
• Higaonon: linog
• Hungarian: rengés (hu), rázkódás (hu), lökés (hu)
• Irish: creathán talún m
• Japanese: 地震 (ja)
• Korean: 지진 (ko) (jijin)
• Latin: terrae mōtus m
• Maori: rūpaku
• Nepali: कम्पन (ne) (kampan), भूकम्प (bhūkampa)
• Polish: wstrząs (pl) m
• Portuguese: tremor (pt) m
• Quechua: pacha kuyuy, allpa chukchuy
• Russian: сотрясе́ние (ru) n (sotrjasénije), толчки́ (ru) m pl (tolčkí)
• Serbo-Croatian: potres (sh) m
• Spanish: terremoto (es) m (in Latin American Spanish, used mainly for destructive earthquakes), temblor (es) m
• Swedish: skalv (sv) n, jordskalv (sv) n
• Vietnamese: sự run rẩy

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• Ido: ^{(please verify)} tremo (io)

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.
   • 2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 17, in Small Island‎^[1], London: Review, page 188:

     The ground tremored under their big boots.

Derived terms

• tremoring

Translations

to shake or quiver; to tremble

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 哆嗦 (zh) (duōsuo), 顫抖／颤抖 (zh) (chàndǒu or zhàndǒu)

• Finnish: värähdellä (fi), väreillä, vavahdella (fi)
• French: trembler (fr)
• German: zittern (de)
• Greek: τρέμω (el) (trémo), ριγώ (el) (rigó)
• Hungarian: reszket (hu), remeg (hu)
• Japanese: 震える (ja) (ふるえる, furueru)
• Maori: ngāueue, ngaue
• Polish: drżeć (pl)
• Portuguese: tremer (pt)
• Russian: дрожа́ть (ru) (drožátʹ), трясти́сь (ru) (trjastísʹ)
• Swedish: skaka (sv)

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *trem-‎ (0 c, 23 e)

Anagrams

• remort, termor

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese tremor (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin tremor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɾeˈmoɾ/

Noun

tremor m (plural tremores)

1. tremor
2. agitation

Related terms

• tremer

References

• Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “tremor”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “tremor”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• “tremor” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “tremor” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Indonesian

Etymology

From English tremor, from Middle English tremour (“fright”), from Anglo-Norman tremour and Old French tremor, from Latin tremor.

Noun

tremor

1. (medicine) A rhythmic, uncontrollable shaking of all or part of the body due to partial muscle contractions; tremor.

Further reading

• “tremor” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Interlingua

Noun

tremor (plural tremores)

1. (medicine) tremor

Latin

Etymology

From tremō +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtre.mor/, [ˈt̪rɛmɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtre.mor/, [ˈt̪rɛːmor]

Noun

tremor m (genitive tremōris); third declension

1. trembling, quaking, tremor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tremor	tremōrēs
Genitive	tremōris	tremōrum
Dative	tremōrī	tremōribus
Accusative	tremōrem	tremōrēs
Ablative	tremōre	tremōribus
Vocative	tremor	tremōrēs

Descendants

• English: tremor
• Old French: cremor
  • Bourguignon: cremmeur
• French: trémeur (borrowing)
• Friulian: trimôr
• Galician: tremor
• Italian: tremore
• Portuguese: tremor
• Sicilian: trimuri
• Spanish: tremor

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

Noun

tremor

1. Alternative form of tremour

Old French

Alternative forms

• tremour (Anglo-Norman)

Etymology

From Latin tremor, probably borrowed.

Noun

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

1. terror; great fear

Related terms

• criembre

Descendants

• → Middle English: tremour, tremor
  • English: tremor
• French: trémeur

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese tremor, from Latin tremor.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /tɾeˈmoʁ/ [tɾeˈmoh]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /tɾeˈmoʁ/ [tɾeˈmoh]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /tɾeˈmoɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /tɾeˈmoʁ/ [tɾeˈmoχ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /tɾeˈmoɻ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɾɨˈmoɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɾɨˈmoɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɾɨˈmo.ɾi/

• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
• Hyphenation: tre‧mor

Noun

tremor m (plural tremores)

1. tremor
2. agitation

Related terms

• tremer

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited 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).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɾeˈmoɾ/ [t̪ɾeˈmoɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: tre‧mor

Noun

tremor m (plural tremores)

1. tremor, trembling

Related terms

• temblar
• tremer

 

Further reading

• “tremor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014