trepit

Uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *trépeti, the thematic root present of Proto-Indo-European *trep- (“to turn”). However, De Vaan doubts the connection between the root *trep- and the terms trepido (“to tremble”) and trepidatio (“agitation”). De Vaan proposes that the word may be a nonce term created based on τρέπω (trépō).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtrɛ.pɪt]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪rɛː.pit̪]

trepit (3rd-person singular active indicative)

1. (hapax legomenon) to turn
   • c. 2nd century, Sextus Pompeius Festus, De verborum significatione 367:

     trepit vertit, unde trepido et trepidatio, quia turbatione mens vertitur

     "trepit" means "to turn," whence "trepido (“to tremble”)" and "trepidatio (“agitation”)," because the mind is turned by a disturbance

• “trepit”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “trepit”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 628
• Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 650
• Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1094