tremuoto

Italian

Likely to make the word sound like tremare (“to shake”), possibly a folk etymology.

tremuoto m (plural tremuoti)

(obsolete, Dantesque) Alternative form of terremoto (“earthquake”)^[1]^[2]
- 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XII”, in Inferno [Hell]‎^[1], lines 4–6; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎^[2], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
  Qual è quella ruina che nel fianco / di qua da Trento l'Adice percosse, / o per tremoto o per sostegno manco, […]
  Like that rockslide which struck the Adige, on the side facing Trento, due to either an earthquake or faulty support [a landslide] […]