tremor

• tremour (obsolete)

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

• (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)/

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?

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.

• tremoring

• remort, termor

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

• IPA^(key): /tɾeˈmoɾ/

tremor m (plural tremores)

1. tremor
2. agitation

• tremer

• Ernesto Xosé 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: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “tremor”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tremor”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “tremor”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

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

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈtremor/ [ˈt̪re.mɔr]
• Rhymes: -emor
• Syllabification: tre‧mor

tremor (plural tremor-tremor)

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

• “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.

tremor (plural tremores)

1. (medicine) tremor

From tremō +‎ -or.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtrɛ.mɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪rɛː.mor]

tremor m (genitive tremōris); third declension

1. trembling, quaking, tremor

Third-declension noun.

tremor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of tremō

• “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.

tremor

1. alternative form of tremour

• tremour (Anglo-Norman)

From Latin tremor, probably borrowed.

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

1. terror; great fear

• criembre

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

From Old Galician-Portuguese tremor, from Latin tremor.

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

tremor m (plural tremores)

1. tremor
2. agitation

• tremer

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).^[1]

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

tremor m (plural tremores)

1. tremor, trembling

• “tremor”, 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