# tremor
## English
### Alternative forms

* tremour (obsolete)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈtɹɛmə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈtɹɛmɚ/
* Rhymes: -ɛmə(ɹ)
** (pin–pen merger) IPA: /ˈtɹɪmɚ/
** Homophone: trimmer
** Rhymes: -ɪmə(ɹ)
* (obsolete) IPA: /ˈtɹiːmə(ɹ)/

### Noun

tremor (plural tremors)
* A shake, quiver, or vibration.
    She felt a tremor in her stomach before going on stage.
** (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.
* An earthquake.
    Did you feel the tremor this morning?

#### Derived terms

* antitremor
* earth tremor
* essential tremor
* harmonic tremor
* microtremor
* night tremor
* tremordominant
* tremorful
* tremorgenic
* tremorgram
* tremorgraph
* tremorgraphy
* tremorine
* tremorless
* tremorous

#### Translations

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### Verb

tremor (third-person singular simple present tremors, present participle tremoring, simple past and past participle tremored)
* To shake or quiver excessively and rapidly or involuntarily; to tremble.
** 2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 17, in Small Island‎, London: Review, page 188:The ground tremored under their big boots.

#### Derived terms

* tremoring

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* remort, termor

## Galician
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɾeˈmoɾ/

### Noun

tremor m (plural tremores)
* tremor
* agitation

#### Related terms

* tremer

### References

* 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

## Indonesian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈtremor/ [ˈt̪re.mor]
* Rhymes: -emor
* Syllabification: tre‧mor

### Noun

tremor (plural tremor-tremor)
* (medicine) A rhythmic, uncontrollable shaking of all or part of the body due to partial muscle contractions; tremor.

### Further reading

* “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.

## Interlingua
### Noun

tremor (plural tremores)
* (medicine) tremor

## Latin
### Etymology

From tremō +‎ -or.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈtre.mor/, [ˈt̪rɛmɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈtre.mor/, [ˈt̪rɛːmor]

### Noun

tremor m (genitive tremōris); third declension
* trembling, quaking, tremor

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* English: tremor
* Old French: cremor
** Bourguignon: cremmeur
* French: trémeur (borrowing)
* Friulian: trimôr
* Galician: tremor
* Italian: tremore
* Portuguese: tremor
* Sicilian: trimuri
* Spanish: tremor

### Verb

tremor
* first-person singular present passive indicative of tremō

### References

* “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.

## Middle English
### Noun

tremor
* Alternative form of tremour

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* tremour (Anglo-Norman)

### Etymology

From Latin tremor, probably borrowed.

### Noun

tremor oblique singular, m (oblique plural tremors, nominative singular tremors, nominative plural tremor)
* terror; great fear

#### Related terms

* criembre

#### Descendants

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

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese tremor, from Latin tremor.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /tɾeˈmoʁ/ [tɾeˈmoh]
* (Brazil) IPA: /tɾeˈmoʁ/ [tɾeˈmoh]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /tɾeˈmoɾ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /tɾeˈmoʁ/ [tɾeˈmoχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /tɾeˈmoɻ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /tɾɨˈmoɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /tɾɨˈmoɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /tɾɨˈmo.ɾi/
* Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
* Hyphenation: tre‧mor

### Noun

tremor m (plural tremores)
* tremor
* agitation

#### Related terms

* tremer

## Spanish
### Etymology

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).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɾeˈmoɾ/ [t̪ɾeˈmoɾ]
* Rhymes: -oɾ
* Syllabification: tre‧mor

### Noun

tremor m (plural tremores)
* tremor, trembling

#### Related terms

* temblar
* tremer

### References

* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “tremor”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

### Further reading

* “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], 2024 December 10