Where does “tremulousness” come from?
tremulousness (English) comes from English tremulous, from Latin tremulus, from Latin tremō, from Proto-Italic tremō, from Proto-Indo-European trem-, from Proto-Indo-European ter-, from Italian termine, from Latin terminus — boundary, end.
tremulousness (English): The property of being tremulous
Definitions
- The property of being tremulous
Ancestry of “tremulousness”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | tremulous | Trembling, quivering, or shaking; Timid,... |
| 2 | Latin | tremulus | shaking, quaking, quivering, trembling, tremulous |
| 3 | Latin | tremō | — |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | tremō | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | trem- | to tremble |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | ter- | tender, weak; young creature |
| 7 | Italian | termine | end, close; limit, term, date, time; term, word |
| 8 | Latin | terminus | a boundary, limit, end |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | termenos | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | térmn̥ | boundary, end |