tremolar

Inherited from Old Catalan tremolar, from Late Latin tremulāre, a verb based on Latin tremulus (“shaking, quivering”), itself an adjective based on tremere (“to shudder”). Compare Occitan tremolar, French trembler, Spanish temblar.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [tɾə.muˈla]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [tɾə.moˈla]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [tɾe.moˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

tremolar (first-person singular present tremolo, first-person singular preterite tremolí, past participle tremolat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/

1. to tremble; to shake

• tremolament
• tremolejar

• tremolor

• “tremolar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “tremolar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Late Latin tremulāre, a verb based on Latin tremulus (“shaking, quivering”), itself an adjective based on tremere (“to shudder”).

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tremolar

1. to tremble; to shake

Probably taken from Aragonese tremolar, from Late Latin tremulāre, ultimately from Latin tremere. Doublet of the inherited Castilian temblar.^[1] Compare Catalan tremolar.

• IPA^(key): /tɾemoˈlaɾ/ [t̪ɾe.moˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: tre‧mo‧lar

tremolar (first-person singular present tremolo, first-person singular preterite tremolé, past participle tremolado)

1. to sway
2. to flutter about
3. (transitive) to wave

• “tremolar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024