zemljotres

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Nominalized form of zemlja (“earth”) +‎ tresti (“shake”), calque of Latin terrae motus or German Erdbeben.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /zêmʎotreːs/
  • Hyphenation: zem‧ljo‧tres

Noun

zȅmljotrēs m (Cyrillic spelling зе̏мљотре̄с)

  1. (regional) earthquake

Declension
Declension of zemljotres
singular plural
nominative zemljotres zemljotresi
genitive zemljotresa zemljotresa
dative zemljotresu zemljotresima
accusative zemljotres zemljotrese
vocative zemljotrese zemljotresi
locative zemljotresu zemljotresima
instrumental zemljotresom zemljotresima

Synonyms

References

Skok, Petar (1973) Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 3, Zagreb: JAZU, page 650

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