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Translation

to vibrate, to quiver

Word origin

From Latin vibrare, to shake or brandish, used of a spear held quivering before the throw. The English family - vibrate, vibrant, vibration - comes off the same verb.

Origin
Latin
Root
vibrare
English cognates
vibrate, vibrant, vibration

Examples

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The strings vibrate when you touch them.

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The whole house shook because of the train.

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His voice shook with emotion.

You have already sung this word. It is in the last verse of La Tagiĝo, Grabowski's 1913 marching song and the movement's second anthem:

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An echo already vibrates in answer to our greeting. That line is doing a great deal with one verb. A o is a sound coming back at you, and what the song claims is that the greeting sent out from one small movement is already being answered from every part of the world - not heard, not agreed with, but physically ringing in the hearts of a hundred thousand people. is the right verb for it because vibration is what a struck thing does whether or not anyone meant to strike it.

It is intransitive, and that governs everything else. A thing ; you cannot a thing. To make something vibrate is i, with the causative --, and the vibration itself is o. This is the same transitivity pattern as tremi at 546, which is worth having beside it: is what a person or an animal does out of cold or fear, is what a physical object does at speed - a string, a bridge, a window in a gale, a voice on the edge of breaking.

A modern use the 1913 corpus could not have. A phone , and vibra is the vibrate setting. The word slid into that meaning without any fuss, which is what a Latin root inside a regular system is for.

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This word is part of lesson 58.