zemljotres
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Nominalized form of zemlja (“earth”) + tresti (“shake”), calque of Latin terrae motus or German Erdbeben.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zêmʎotreːs/
- Hyphenation: zem‧ljo‧tres
Noun
zȅmljotrēs m inan (Cyrillic spelling зе̏мљотре̄с)
- (regional) earthquake
- Synonym: pòtres
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | zemljotres | zemljotresi |
| genitive | zemljotresa | zemljotresa |
| dative | zemljotresu | zemljotresima |
| accusative | zemljotres | zemljotrese |
| vocative | zemljotrese | zemljotresi |
| locative | zemljotresu | zemljotresima |
| instrumental | zemljotresom | zemljotresima |
References
- Skok, Petar (1973) “zemljotres”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 3 (poni² – Ž), Zagreb: JAZU, page 650