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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *trem-}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * Classical: [ˈtrɛ.mɔr]^(Wiktionary)
+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈtrɛː.mor]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''tremor''' ''m'' (genitive tremōris); third declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|tremō|-or|t1=to tremble]].^(Wiktionary)^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008) The verb [[m|la|tremō]] goes back to [[ine-pro|*trem-|t=to tremble]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|τρέμω|tr=trémō|t=to tremble]] and [[lt|trìmti|t=to tremble]].^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) whose shipwrecked old man in the ''Rudens'' chatters with cold.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It is trembling or shuddering, from fear, as in Cicero's “pallor and trembling follow terror”, or from cold or illness.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lucretius uses it of the quivering of fires, and later it is any quaking, as of the earth.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of a person it can be the cause of terror, as Petronius' Pompey, “that terror of the sea”.^(OLD 2012)
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+ Church Latin glosses it “fear, trembling” and an object of fear.^(Stelten 1995)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of shivering with cold.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of the quivering of fires.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of trembling from fear.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * before 66 AD – Petronius of a man as a terror.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * late 14th century – Borrowed into English as [[m|en|tremor]], through Old French.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # [[m|en|trembling|alt=Trembling]], shuddering, from fear, cold or illness.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)
+ # A cause of [[m|en|terror]].^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)
+ # [[m|en|quivering|alt=Quivering]], quaking.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[tremo|alt=tremō]]
+ * [[en|tremor]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}