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]
    • early 14th century, Dante, “Canto XII”, in Inferno, lines 4–6:
      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 quote)

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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