trepidant

See also: trépidant

English

Etymology

From Latin trepidāntem.

Adjective

trepidant (comparative more trepidant, superlative most trepidant)

  1. (rare) Trembling with fear or emotion.
    • 1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 131:
      The good old Duke – no, the General, called me all trepidant to him, smiled, asked my age and service, liked the wire, and passed into the village.
  2. (medicine, archaic) Marked by trembling or tremor.

Derived terms

Latin

Verb

trepidant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of trepidō

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French trépidant.

Adjective

trepidant m or n (feminine singular trepidantă, masculine plural trepidanți, feminine and neuter plural trepidante)

  1. hectic

Declension

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