'antivibrating' is a modern English formation combining the prefix 'anti-' (from Greek 'anti' meaning 'against') with the present participle of 'vibrate' (from Latin 'vibrare' meaning 'to shake').

'vibrate' originates from Latin 'vibrare'; it passed into Old/Middle French as 'vibrer' and into English as 'vibrate'. The adjective 'antivibrating' is formed in modern English by prefixing 'anti-' to 'vibrating' to indicate opposition to vibration.

Originally Latin 'vibrare' meant 'to shake' or 'to move quickly to and fro'; over time 'vibrate' came to mean 'to oscillate' in English, and the compound 'antivibrating' evolved to mean 'acting against or preventing such oscillation'.