tremulus

Latin

Etymology 1

From tremō (“tremble”) +‎ -ulus (“-ing”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

tremulus (feminine tremula, neuter tremulum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. shaking, quaking, quivering, trembling, tremulous
Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative tremulus tremula tremulum tremulī tremulae tremula
genitive tremulī tremulae tremulī tremulōrum tremulārum tremulōrum
dative tremulō tremulae tremulō tremulīs
accusative tremulum tremulam tremulum tremulōs tremulās tremula
ablative tremulō tremulā tremulō tremulīs
vocative tremule tremula tremulum tremulī tremulae tremula
Derived terms
Descendants
  • With the original sense of 'trembling':
    • Galician: tremo
    • Italian: tremolo
    • Old Occitan: tremol
    • Sardinian: tremulu
  • With the sense of 'electric ray':
  • With the sense of 'tremor, minor earthquake':
  • With the sense of 'quaking bog':
  • With the sense of 'clover':
    • ⇒ Old French: tranline, trambline
    • ⇒ Picard: tramène
    • ⇒ Walloon: trimbleune
  • Learned borrowings:

Etymology 2

Substantivization of etymology 1. Attested in the sixth century in the works of Plinius Valerius.

Noun

tremulus m (genitive tremulī); second declension (Late Latin)

  1. quaking aspen, trembling poplar
Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative tremulus tremulī
genitive tremulī tremulōrum
dative tremulō tremulīs
accusative tremulum tremulōs
ablative tremulō tremulīs
vocative tremule tremulī
Descendants

References

Further reading

  • “tremulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “tremulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "tremulus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • tremulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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