tregua

See also: trรฉgua

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese tregua (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), probably from Gothic ๐„๐‚๐Œน๐Œฒ๐Œฒ๐…๐Œฐ (triggwa), inflected form of ๐„๐‚๐Œน๐Œฒ๐Œฒ๐…๐ƒ (triggws, โ€œtrue, faithfulโ€); but attested Medieval Latin treuga[1] points perhaps to a West Germanic *trewwa, from Proto-Germanic *trewwล.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /หˆtษพษ›ษฃwaฬ/

Noun

tregua m (plural treguas)

  1. truce
    • 1443, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos sรฉculos XIII ao XVI. Vigo: Galaxia, page 282:
      logo o dito arรงediano diso que eso meesmo por sy e por todos los seus que asy outorgaua a dita tregua torrnadiรงa de noue dias ao dito Pero Dias e a seus escudeiros e omes de parte รก parte e de vando รก vando
      then the aforementioned archdeacon said the same for him and his own, that he granted this reversible truce of nine days to the mentioned Pedro Dรญaz and his squires and men, side to side, band to band
  2. rest, break

References

  • โ€œtreguaโ€ in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • โ€œtreguaโ€ in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gรณmez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmรญrez - Corpus lingรผรญstico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • โ€œtreguaโ€ in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • โ€œtregoaโ€ in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  1. โ€œtreugโ€ in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gรณmez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmรญrez - Corpus lingรผรญstico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.

Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Gothic ๐„๐‚๐Œน๐Œฒ๐Œฒ๐…๐Œฐ (triggwa), inflected form of ๐„๐‚๐Œน๐Œฒ๐Œฒ๐…๐ƒ (triggws, โ€œtrue, faithfulโ€), from Proto-Germanic *trewwล. Compare German Treue (โ€œloyaltyโ€) and French trรชve (โ€œtruceโ€).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /หˆtrษ›.ษกwa/, [หˆtฬชrฬบษ›หษกwรค]
  • Rhymes: -ษ›ษกwa
  • Stress: trรจgua
  • Hyphenation: treโ€งgua

Noun

tregua f (plural tregue)

  1. truce
    Synonym: armistizio
  2. rest, respite
    Synonyms: mora, pausa

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Spanish

Etymology

From Gothic ๐„๐‚๐Œน๐Œฒ๐Œฒ๐…๐Œฐ (triggwa) (cognate with Frankish *trewa, Dutch trouw, German Treue; Middle English trewe, trewes, English truce).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /หˆtษพeษกwa/, [หˆtฬชษพeษฃwa]

Noun

tregua f (plural treguas)

  1. truce
  2. rest, break

Derived terms

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