different between trepidate vs trepidation

English

Etymology

Either back-formed from, or otherwise related to, trepidation.

Verb

trepidate (third-person singular simple present trepidates, present participle trepidating, simple past and past participle trepidated)

1. (uncommon, transitive) To cause to experience trepidation.
   • 1878, a Memphis newspaper, quoted in 2015, John H. Ellis, Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South, University Press of Kentucky (?ISBN), page 51:

     […] “A little trepidated, if not consternated, they lifted him from his close confinement and put him to bed.”

   • 2016, Debby Holt, The Soulmate, Simon and Schuster (?ISBN):

     If so, he was now deeply trepidated. He had almost hoped she would not live up to expectations. She might have lost her looks, acquired irritating habits, even proved to be unpleasant. But here she was, still beautiful and charming.

2. (uncommon, intransitive) To experience trepidation.
   • 2007, Jack Womack, Elvissey: A Novel, Grove/Atlantic, Inc. (?ISBN):

     I trepidated that evening upon entering their apartment; his wife, we were told, was from that other world, and no one briefed us as to how she would show.

Italian

Verb

trepidate

1. second-person plural present indicative of trepidare
2. second-person plural imperative of trepidare
3. feminine plural of trepidato

Latin

Verb

trepid?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of trepid?

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin trepid?ti?, from trepid? (“be agitated”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /?t??p.??de?.??n/

Noun

trepidation (countable and uncountable, plural trepidations)

1. A fearful state; a state of concern or hesitation.

   Synonyms: agitation, apprehension, consternation, fear, hesitation, worry

   • 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, Chapter VII, Section vi

     She opened the drawing-room door in trepidation. Would she find Esther drowned with her head in the goldfish bowl, or hanged from the chandelier by her stay-lace?
2. An involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect of paralysis, but usually caused by terror or fear; quaking; quivering.
3. (astronomy, obsolete) A libration of the starry sphere in the Ptolemaic system; a motion ascribed to the firmament, to account for certain small changes in the position of the ecliptic and of the stars.

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References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “trepidation”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• departition, partitioned