trem

See also: trém and třem

English

Etymology

Clipping of tremolo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trɛm/

Noun

trem (plural trems)

1. (music, informal) The vibrato system on a guitar.
   • 1995, Mike Thompson, Great Tube Amp and Guitar Mods, →ISBN, page 31:

     Remember that the footswitch has to be working and plugged in for the trem and vibrato to work.

   • 2002, Barry Lipman, Guitar Questions: The Novice's Guide to Guitar Repairs, →ISBN, page 89:

     When you pick up the bar to use it, the trem unlocks and becomes a floating bridge again.

Afrikaans

Etymology

From English tram.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

trem (plural trems)

1. tram

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾɛŋ/ [ˈt̪ɾɛŋ]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛŋ
• Hyphenation: trem

Noun

trem m (plural trens, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of tren

Further reading

• “trem”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2025

Portuguese

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trem

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Etymology

Borrowed from English train, from Middle English, from Old French train (“a delay, a drawing out”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾẽj̃/ [ˈtɾẽɪ̯̃]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾɐ̃j̃/

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ẽj̃, (Portugal) -ɐ̃j̃
• Hyphenation: trem

Noun

trem m (plural trens)

1. set (a series of, a group of)

   trem de cozinha ― cookware set

2. (military) train
3. (rail transport, Brazil) train (line of connected cars or carriages)

   Synonym: (Portugal) comboio

   Meronyms: locomotiva, vagão

4. (chiefly Minas Gerais and Goiás) thingy, thingummy

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:treco

5. ellipsis of trem de aterragem
6. (Rio Grande do Sul, obsolete) bus

Derived terms

• trem de aterragem
• trem de lastro
• trem de pouso
• trem-bala

Further reading

• “trem”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “trem”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “trem”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “trem”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• trijȇm (Ijekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *termъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trêːm/

Noun

trȇm m inan (Cyrillic spelling тре̑м) (Ekavian)

1. porch

Declension

Declension of trem

	singular	plural
nominative	trȇm	trémovi
genitive	trema	tremova
dative	tremu	tremovima
accusative	trem	tremove
vocative	treme	tremovi
locative	tremu	tremovima
instrumental	tremom	tremovima

References

• “trem”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025