tremuoto

Italian

Etymology

Likely to make the word sound like tremare (“to shake”), possibly a folk etymology.

Noun

tremuoto m (plural tremuoti)

  1. (obsolete, Dantesque) Alternative form of terremoto (“earthquake”)[1][2]
    • mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XII”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 4–6; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Qual è quella ruina che nel fianco
      di qua da Trento l'Adice percosse,
      o per tremoto o per sostegno manco, […]
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References
  1. http://www.lessicografia.it/Controller?lemma=TREMUOTO%2C+e+TREMOTO
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=0vBfARKhLhwC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
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