Etymograph

English

tremulation

Tremulation comes from Medieval Latin tremulō ‘to tremble, shake’, and goes back to Latin tremulus.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtremulus1‘trembling’
  2. Medieval Latinc. 600–1500tremulō2as tremulātus‘to tremble, shake’
  3. Englishtodaytremulation2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin tremulo
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English tremulation

Earlier history not traced here. See Wiktionary.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtremulusWiktionary, Latin tremulo‘trembling’
  2. Medieval Latinc. 600–1500tremulōWiktionary, English tremulationas tremulātus‘to tremble, shake’
  3. EnglishtodaytremulationWiktionary, English tremulation

Formed from -ion

Every English word from Latin tremulus

Today it means

noun A trembling, quivering.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “tremulation”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin tremulo. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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