tremulus

Latin

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtre.mu.lus/, [ˈt̪rɛmʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtre.mu.lus/, [ˈt̪rɛːmulus]

Etymology 1

From tremō (“tremble”) +‎ -ulus (diminutive ending).

Adjective

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

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

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative tremulus tremula tremulum tremulī tremulae tremula
Genitive tremulī tremulae tremulī tremulōrum tremulārum tremulōrum
Dative tremulō 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

  1. (Late Latin) quaking aspen, trembling poplar

Descendants
  • Italo-Romance:
  • North Italian:
    • Ladin: tremolo
    • Piedmontese: tremmu, termu
    • Romansch: triembal, trembel
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: trembllo
    • French: tremble
  • Occitano-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:

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’s 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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