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:
Jam '
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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Start your free weekThis word is part of lesson 58.