intremo Latin · revision 33386

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=70–19 BC, Virgil|origins=ine-pro *tr(e)m-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈɪn.trɛ.moː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈin.tre.mo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''intremō''' (present infinitive intremere, perfect active intremuī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

+ The TLL files its perfect forms under ''intremēscō''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|tremō|t2=to tremble]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|tremō]] to [[itc-pro|*trem-e/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*tr(e)m-|t=to tremble]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[xum|tremitu]] and [[grc|τρέμω|tr=trémō|t=to tremble]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it in poets from Virgil on,^(TLL) who writes that whenever Enceladus turns his side, all Trinacria trembles with a rumbling: ''intremere omnem murmure Trinacriam''.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to tremble or quake: in Virgil a mast and the waves, in Ovid the earth, an oak, and knees that suddenly shook with fear.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) In prose it appears from Celsus on, who writes that the whole body trembles.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Petronius uses it of trumpets that sound with a quavering note.^(OLD 2012) Silius Italicus gives it an object, “to tremble at”: the fates of kings, or Hannibal.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, “tremble, quake”.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid, of knees shaking with fear.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus, the first prose author to use it.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 25–101 AD – Silius Italicus, “tremble at”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|tremble]], quake, [[m|en|shake]]; of a trumpet, to make a vibrating sound.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(with accusative or dative)'' To tremble at.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[intremescō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tremō]]

+ * [[tremor]]

+ * [[contremō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}