Learned borrowing from Latin terraemotus.
terremoto m (plural terremotos)
- earthquake
- Synonyms: sismo, terramoto
Borrowed from Latin terraemotus.
- IPA(key): /ter.reˈmɔ.to/
- Rhymes: -ɔto
- Hyphenation: ter‧re‧mò‧to
terremoto m (plural terremoti)
- (geology) earthquake, quake
- Synonym: sisma
- (figurative) havoc, chaos, uproar
Borrowed from Latin terraemotus, from terrae (“earth”) + mōtus (“movement”).
- Hyphenation: ter‧re‧mo‧to
terremoto m (plural terremotos) (Brazilian Portuguese spelling)
- (seismology) earthquake
- Synonyms: abalo, abalo sísmico, sismo, tremor, tremor de terra
- Coordinate term: maremoto
Borrowed from Italian terremoto, or borrowed from Latin terraemotus.
- IPA(key): /tereˈmoto/ [t̪e.reˈmo.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -oto
- Syllabification: te‧rre‧mo‧to
terremoto m (plural terremotos)
- earthquake
- Synonyms: seísmo, sismo, temblor de tierra, temblor