guerra

From Late Latin *werra, *guerra, from Frankish *werra (“riot, disturbance, quarrel”), from Proto-Germanic *werzō (“confusion, disarray”), from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh”).

guerra f (plural guerres)

1. war

• guerra civil

• guerreru
• guerriar

From Old Occitan guerra, from Late Latin *werra, *guerra, from Frankish *werra (“riot, disturbance, quarrel”), from Proto-Germanic *werzō, *werzá- (“confusion, disarray”), from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh”).

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɛ.rə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɛ.ra/
• Rhymes: -ɛra

guerra f (plural guerres)

1. war

• (war): pau

• guerrejar
• guerrer

• “guerra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Attested in local Latin documents since the 11th century. From Late Latin *werra, *guerra, from Frankish *werra (“riot, disturbance, quarrel”), from Proto-Germanic *werzō, *werzá- (“confusion, disarray”), from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɛra̝/

guerra f (plural guerras)

1. war
2. noisy confusion

• (war): paz

• guerrear
• Guerreiro
• guerreiro

• “guerra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “guerra” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “guerra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “guerra” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “guerra” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

guerra

1. war

• bello

From Old Italian guerra, from Late Latin *werra, *guerra, from Frankish *werra (“riot, disturbance, quarrel”) from Proto-Germanic *werrō (“confusion, disarray”), from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh”). Related to Old High German werra (“confusion, strife, quarrel”) (German verwirren (“to confuse”)), Old Saxon werran (“to confuse, perplex”), Dutch war (“confusion, disarray”), Old English wyrsa, wiersa (“worse”). More at worse, wurst.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡwɛr.ra/, [ˈɡwɛr̺ːä]

• Audio (la guerra)

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• Hyphenation: guèr‧ra

guerra f (plural guerre)

1. (also figuratively) war, warfare

   Synonyms: conflitto, lotta, ostilità, scontro

   Antonym: pace

• guerra on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

• urgerà

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ɡuˈer.ra/, [ɡʊˈɛr.ra]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ɡuˈer.ra/

guerra f (genitive guerrae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) Alternative form of werra (“war”)

First declension.

• bellum

• guerra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

From Late Latin *werra, *guerra, from Frankish *werra (“riot, disturbance, quarrel”), from Proto-Germanic *werzō, *werzá- (“confusion, disarray”), from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɛ.ra/

guerra f (plural guerras)

1. war

• (war): paz

• Fala: guerra
• Galician: guerra
• Portuguese: guerra

From Old Portuguese guerra, gerra, from Late Latin *werra, *guerra, from Frankish *werra (“riot, disturbance, quarrel”), from Proto-Germanic *werrō (“confusion, disarray”), from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh”).

Related to Spanish guerra, Italian guerra, French guerre and English war.

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɛ.ʁɐ/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɛ.ha/
• Hyphenation: guer‧ra

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guerra f (plural guerras)

1. war (organised, large-scale armed conflict)
2. (uncountable) war; warfare (the waging of war)
3. (figuratively) war (any large-scale conflict)

• (conflict): conflito

• (warfare): paz

• guerrinha (diminutive)
• guerrona (augmentative)
• guerrear
• guerreiro

• guerrilha

• batalha, bélico, combate, beligerência

• uiara (Sursilvan)
• veara, gueara (Sutsilvan)
• ghera (Surmiran)

From Late Latin *werra, *guerra, from Frankish *werra (“riot, disturbance, quarrel”), from Proto-Germanic *werzō, *werzá- (“confusion, disarray”), from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh”).

guerra f (plural guerras)

1. war

• verra, uerra

From Late Latin *werra, *guerra, from Frankish *werra (“riot, disturbance, quarrel”) from Proto-Germanic *werrō (“confusion, disarray”). Compare Italian guerra, Neapolitan uerra.

• (Trapani) IPA^(key): [ˈɡwɛʐʐa]
• Hyphenation: guèr‧ra

guerra f (plural guerri)

1. war

• paci

From Medieval Latin guerra, from Vulgar Latin *werra, *guerra, from Frankish *werra (“riot, disturbance, quarrel”), from Proto-Germanic *werzō, *werzá- (“confusion, disarray”), from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh”). Compare Portuguese guerra, Italian guerra, French guerre.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡera/
• Hyphenation: gue‧rra

guerra f (plural guerras)

1. war, warfare

   La guerra entre los Estados Unidos e Irak

   The war between the United States and Iraq

• conflicto bélico, choque, combate, conflagración, conflicto, contienda, cruzada, enfrentamiento, guerrilla, hostilidades, lid, lucha, ofensiva, pelea, refriega

• paz, concordia

• “guerra” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.