Where does “tremorgenic” come from?
tremorgenic (English) comes from English genic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine, from Latin imāginem — in.
tremorgenic (English): Causing tremors
Definitions
- Causing tremors
Ancestry of “tremorgenic”, step by step
tremorgenic traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English genic
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | genic | of, relating to, produced by, or being a gene |
| 2 | English | -ic | Used to form adjectives from nouns with the... |
| 3 | English | image | An optical or other representation of a real... |
| 4 | French | image | picture, image; frame; first-person singular... |
| 5 | Portuguese | imagem | image; picture; figure; image; image; face |
| 6 | Spanish | imagen | image |
| 7 | Italian | immagine | image; imago |
| 8 | Latin | imāginem | — |
| 9 | Latin | im- | Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in |
| 10 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 11 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 12 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via English tremor
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | tremor | A shake, quiver, or vibration; An earthquake; To... |
| 2 | Middle English | tremour | terror |
| 3 | Anglo-Norman | tremour | — |
| 4 | Old French | tremor | terror; great fear |
| 5 | Latin | tremor | trembling, quaking, tremor; first-person singular... |
| 6 | Latin | tremō | to tremble, shake, shudder at |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | tremō | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | trem- | to tremble |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ter- | tender, weak; young creature |
| 10 | Italian | termine | end, close; limit, term, date, time; term, word |
| 11 | Latin | terminus | a boundary, limit, end |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | termenos | — |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | térmn̥ | boundary, end |