tremulus

Latin

Etymology 1

Etymology tree
Latin tremō
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -ulus
Latin tremulus

    From tremō (“tremble”) + -ulus (“-ing”).

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    tremulus (feminine tremula, neuter tremulum); first/second-declension adjective

    1. shaking, quaking, quivering, trembling, tremulous
    Declension

    First/second-declension adjective.

    singular plural
    masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
    nominative tremulus tremula tremulum tremulī tremulae tremula
    genitive tremulī tremulae tremulī tremulōrum tremulārum tremulōrum
    dative tremulō tremulae tremulō tremulīs
    accusative tremulum tremulam tremulum tremulōs tremulās tremula
    ablative tremulō tremulā tremulō tremulīs
    vocative tremule tremula tremulum tremulī tremulae tremula
    Derived terms
    Descendants
    • With the original sense of 'trembling':
      • Galician: tremo
      • Italian: tremolo
      • Old Occitan: tremol
      • Sardinian: tremulu
    • With the sense of 'electric ray':
    • With the sense of 'tremor, minor earthquake':
    • With the sense of 'quaking bog':
    • With the sense of 'clover':
      • ⇒ Old French: tranline, trambline
      • ⇒ Picard: tramène
      • ⇒ Walloon: trimbleune
    • Learned borrowings:

    Etymology 2

    Substantivization of etymology 1. Attested in the sixth century in the works of Plinius Valerius.

    Noun

    tremulus m (genitive tremulī); second declension (Late Latin)

    1. quaking aspen, trembling poplar
      Synonym: pōpulus tremula (specifically Populus tremula)
    Declension

    Second-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative tremulus tremulī
    genitive tremulī tremulōrum
    dative tremulō tremulīs
    accusative tremulum tremulōs
    ablative tremulō tremulīs
    vocative tremule tremulī
    Descendants

    References

    Further reading

    • “tremulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “tremulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "tremulus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • “tremulus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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