quiver
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
government
mathematics
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: From Middle English quiver, from Anglo-Norman quivre, from Old Dutch cocare (source of Dutch koker, and cognate to Old English cocer (“quiver, case”)), from Proto-West Germanic *kokar (“container”), said to be from Hunnic, possibly from Proto-Mongolic *kökexür (“leather vessel for liquids”); see there for more. Replaced early modern cocker, the inherited reflex of that West Germanic word.
The mathematical sense originated as German Köcher in a 1972 paper by Pierre Gabriel; it was likely chosen because a quiver contains arrows, while a digraph contains directed edges (also called "arrows").
Inflected forms:
form: quivers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: quivers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: quivering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: quivered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: quivered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.
pos: noun
examples: Don Pedro: Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.
Arrows were carried in quiver, called also an arrow case, which served for the magazine, arrows for immediate use were worn in the girdle.
gloss: A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: He's got lots of sales pitches in his quiver.
gloss: A vulva.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: The collective noun for cobras.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A multidigraph, especially in the context of representation theory.
pos: noun
gloss: To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The birds chaunt melodie on euerie buſh,
 The ſnakes^([sic – meaning ſnake]) lies rolled in the chearefull ſunne,
 The greene leaues quiuer with the cooling winde,
 And make a checkerd ſhadow on the ground: [...]
And left the limbs still quivering on the ground.
Next moment with a rapid, nameless impulse, in a superb lofty arch the bright steel spans the foaming distance, and quivers in the life spot of the whale.
And the moonlight on the Church seemed to shift and quiver—some pigeons perhaps had been disturbed up there.
Derived words: arrow in the quiver
Auslander-Reiten quiver
quiverful
Quiverfull
quiver tree
subquiver
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: դող
roman: doġ
lang: Bulgarian
word: трепе́рене
roman: trepérene
lang: Czech
word: záchvěv
lang: Czech
word: zachvění
lang: Czech
word: třes
lang: Czech
word: třesení
lang: Czech
word: chvění
lang: Finnish
word: vapina
lang: French
word: tremblement
lang: French
word: frisson
lang: French
word: frémissement
lang: Georgian
word: თრთოლა
roman: trtola
lang: Georgian
word: ჟრჟოლა
roman: žržola
lang: Georgian
word: კანკალი
roman: ḳanḳali
lang: Georgian
word: ცახცახი
roman: caxcaxi
lang: Greek
word: ρίγος
roman: rígos
lang: Greek
word: τρέμουλο
roman: trémoulo
lang: Hindi
word: कम्पन
roman: kampan
lang: Hindi
word: थर्राना
roman: tharrānā
lang: Macedonian
word: трепе́рење
roman: trepérenje
lang: Macedonian
word: тре́пет
roman: trépet
lang: Polish
word: drżenie
lang: Russian
word: дрожь
roman: drožʹ
lang: Russian
word: тре́пет
roman: trépet
lang: Spanish
word: temblor
lang: Swedish
word: skakar
lang: Telugu
word: వణుకు
roman: vaṇuku
lang: Telugu
word: కంపించు
roman: kampiñcu
lang: Tok Pisin
word: guria
lang: Ukrainian
word: тремті́ння
roman: tremtínnja
lang: Ukrainian
word: тре́мор
roman: trémor
lang: Yiddish
word: ציטער
roman: tsiter