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
    Synonym: pòtres

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

References
  • Skok, Petar (1973) “zemljotres”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 3 (poni² – Ž), Zagreb: JAZU, page 650
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