scuotere

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to shake, to jolt
  2. (also, figuratively, transitive) to shake off, to remove by shaking
  3. (figuratively, transitive) to upset, to shake (emotionally)
  4. (archaic, literary, transitive) to deprive

Frequency

21k
Hyphenated as
scuò‧te‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈskwɔ.te.re/
Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *exquatere, *excotere, a remodelling of Latin excutere on simplex quatere. Compare Romanian scoate (“remove”). Cf. also escutere, a borrowed doublet.

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