tremor

• tremour (obsolete)

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman tremour, from Old French tremor, from Latin tremor.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɛmɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɛmə(ɹ)
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪmɚ/
  • Homophone: trimmer
  • Rhymes: -ɪmə(ɹ)

tremor (plural tremors)

1. A shake, quiver, or vibration.

   She felt a tremor in her stomach before going on stage.

   1. 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, Small Island, London: Review, Chapter Seventeen, p. 188,

     The ground tremored under their big boots.

• tremorous
• tremorously

• tremble
• tremblor

• remort, termor

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

• IPA^(key): /tɾeˈmoɾ/

tremor m (plural tremores)

1. tremor
2. agitation

• tremer

• “tremor” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “tremor” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “tremor” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “tremor” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

tremor (plural tremores)

1. (medicine) tremor

From tremō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtre.mor/, [ˈtrɛ.mɔr]

tremor m (genitive tremōris); third declension

1. trembling, quaking, tremor

Third declension.

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

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman tremour, Old French tremour.

tremor (plural tremors)

1. terror; great fear

• English: tremor

• tremour (Anglo-Norman)

From Latin tremor, possibly borrowed.

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

1. terror; great fear

• criembre

• English: tremor (borrowed)
• French: trémeur

From Old Portuguese tremor, from Latin tremor.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɾɨˈmoɾ/

tremor m (plural tremores)

1. tremor
2. agitation

• tremer

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].

tremor m (plural tremores)

1. tremor, trembling

• tremer
• temblar