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Translation

to tremble, to shake

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Examples

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His hands trembled with fear.

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The child shivered in the cold wind.

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Her voice trembled when she spoke.

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The whole house shook from the gale.

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I felt a small tremor in the floor.

is intransitive: the thing trembles, nobody trembles it. If you want to make something shake, that is , or i if the shaking is the fine sort this root describes. The cause of the trembling takes pro, so pro , pro , pro . The noun is a tremor or a shiver, i is the sudden start you give when a door bangs, and i is the small nervous quiver. It is a favourite in the older literature, where characters spend a good deal of their time trembling.

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This word is taught in chapter 6, lesson 6: tremi, regi, insulo and 7 more words.