trema

See also: Trema and tréma

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τρῆμα (trêma, hole), from τετραίνω (tetraínō, perforate), used for the dots on dice, via Dutch trema and French tréma.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɹiː.mə/, /ˈtɹɛm.ə/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛmə, -iːmə

Noun

trema (plural tremas or tremata)

  1. A diacritic consisting of two dots ( ¨ ) placed over a letter, used among other things to indicate umlaut or diaeresis.
    Synonym: diaeresis

Translations

Anagrams

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French tréma, from Ancient Greek τρῆμα (trêma)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtreː.maː/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: tre‧ma
  • Rhymes: -eːmaː

Noun

trema n (plural trema's, diminutive tremaatje n)

  1. diaresis, trema

Synonyms

Galician

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɾema/ [ˈt̪ɾe.mɐ]
  • Rhymes: -ema
  • Hyphenation: tre‧ma

Etymology 1

From Latin tremulus.

Alternative forms

Noun

trema m (plural tremas)

  1. quaking bog (place with a wet spongy ground, sometimes too soft for walking)
    Synonyms: tremedal, tremedeira, tremedoiro, tremesiña

Adjective

trema

  1. feminine singular of tremo
  • Trembedo
  • Trémoa
  • Tremoedo

References

Etymology 2

Verb

trema

  1. inflection of tremar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
  2. inflection of tremer:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Interlingua

Noun

trema (plural tremas)

  1. diaeresis

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtrɛ.ma/
  • Rhymes: -ɛma
  • Hyphenation: trè‧ma

Verb

trema

  1. inflection of tremare:
    1. third-person singular present
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtrɛ.ma/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛma
  • Syllabification: tre‧ma

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian tremare.

Noun

trema f

  1. stage fright (state of nervousness about performing some action in front of a group of people, on or off of a stage; nerves; a lack of self-assurance before an audience)
Declension
Derived terms
verbs

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French tréma.

Noun

trema n (indeclinable)

  1. trema, diaeresis (diacritic consisting of two dots (¨) placed over a letter, used among other things to indicate umlaut or diaeresis)
    Synonym: diereza

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

trema n

  1. inflection of tremo:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Further reading

  • trema in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • trema in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From French tréma, from Ancient Greek τρῆμα (trêma, hole).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈtɾẽ.mɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈtɾe.ma/

  • Hyphenation: tre‧ma

Noun

trema m (plural tremas)

  1. trema, a diacritic (¨)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈtɾẽ.mɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈtɾe.ma/

  • Hyphenation: tre‧ma

Verb

trema

  1. inflection of tremar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈtɾẽ.mɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈtɾe.ma/

  • Hyphenation: tre‧ma

Verb

trema

  1. inflection of tremer:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /trěːma/

Etymology 1

From Latin tremō (to shake, tremble).

Noun

tréma f (Cyrillic spelling тре́ма)

  1. stage fright

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Trema, from French tréma, from Ancient Greek τρῆμα (trêma).

Noun

tréma f (Cyrillic spelling тре́ма)

  1. (linguistics) diaeresis, trema
Declension
Declension of trema
singular plural
nominative trema treme
genitive treme trema
dative tremi tremama
accusative tremu treme
vocative tremo treme
locative tremi tremama
instrumental tremom tremama

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɾema/ [ˈt̪ɾe.ma]
  • Rhymes: -ema
  • Syllabification: tre‧ma

Verb

trema

  1. inflection of tremer:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative