armistice

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French armistice, from Medieval Latin armistitium, from Latin arma (“weapons”) and statio (“immobility”).

Pronunciation

IPA: /ˈɑɹ.mɪs.tɪs/

Noun

armistice (plural armistices)

A formal agreement to end fighting.

Coordinate terms

Translations

formal agreement to end fighting

Albanian: armëpushim (sq) m
Arabic: هُدْنَة‎‎ f (hudna), وَقْف نَار‎‎ m (waqf nār)
Asturian: armisticiu m
Belarusian: перамі́р'е n (pjeramírʺje)
Bengali: অস্ত্রবিরতি (ôstrôbirôti)
Bulgarian: прими́рие (bg) n (primírie)
Catalan: armistici m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 停戰 (zh), 停战 (zh) (tíngzhàn), 休戰 (zh), 休战 (zh) (xiūzhàn)
Czech: příměří n
Dutch: wapenstilstand (nl) m, wapenstand m
Estonian: vaherahu, relvarahu
Finnish: aselepo (fi)
French: armistice (fr) m, trêve (fr) f
Galician: armisticio m
German: Waffenstillstand (de) m
Greek: ανακωχή (el) f (anakochí)
Hebrew: שְׁבִיתַת נֶשֶׁק‎‎ (he) (sh"vitat neshek)
Hungarian: fegyverszünet (hu)
Icelandic: vopnahlé n
Ido: armistico (io)
Indonesian: gencatan senjata (id)
Italian: armistizio (it) m
Japanese: 停戦 (ていせん, teisen), 休戦 (きゅうせん, kyūsen)

Korean: 정전 (ko) (jeongjeon), 휴전 (ko) (hyujeon)
Latin: indutiae f pl
Macedonian: примирје n (primirje)
Manx: aash caggee f
Maori: rangaawatea
Norman: armistie f
Norwegian: våpenhvile (no) m
Occitan: armistici m
Polish: rozejm (pl) m, zawieszenie broni (pl) n
Portuguese: armistício (pt) m
Romanian: armistițiu (ro) n
Russian: прекраще́ние огня́ n (prekraščénije ognjá), переми́рие (ru) n (peremírije)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: примирје n

Roman: primirje (sh) n
Slovak: prímerie n
Slovene: premirje (sl) n
Spanish: armisticio (es) m
Swedish: vapenstillestånd (sv) c
Turkish: ateşkes (tr) m, mütareke (tr)
Ukrainian: припине́ння вогню́ n (prypynénnja vohnjú), переми́р'я n (peremýrʺja)
Vietnamese: đình chiến (vi), hưu chiến (vi)
Welsh: cadoediad (cy) m

Further reading

armistice on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

ameristic

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin armistitium, from Latin arma (“weapons”) and statio (“immobility”) (compare solstitium). Cognate with Italian armistizio, Spanish armisticio.

Noun

armistice m (plural armistices)

armistice

Related terms

arme

Further reading

“armistice” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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