controversia

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin contrōversia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kon.tro.ˈvɛr.sja/
  • Rhymes: -ɛrsja
  • Hyphenation: con‧tro‧vèr‧sia

Noun

controversia f (plural controversie)

  1. controversy
  2. dispute (legal)

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From contrōversus +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /kon.troːˈwer.si.a/, [kɔn.troːˈwɛr.si.a]

Noun

contrōversia f (genitive contrōversiae); first declension

  1. a quarrel, dispute, debate
  2. (law) lawsuit
  3. contradiction

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative contrōversia contrōversiae
genitive contrōversiae contrōversiārum
dative contrōversiae contrōversiīs
accusative contrōversiam contrōversiās
ablative contrōversiā contrōversiīs
vocative contrōversia contrōversiae

Descendants

References

  • controversia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • controversia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • controversia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be at variance with: in controversia (contentione) esse, versari
    • to be at variance with: in controversiam cadere
    • to make a thing the subject of controversy: in controversiam vocare, adducere aliquid
    • to be contested, become the subject of debate: in controversiam vocari, adduci, venire (De Or. 2. 72. 291)
    • to leave a point undecided: in controversia relinquere aliquid
    • to maintain a controversy with some one: controversiam (contentionem) habere cum aliquo
    • the point at issue: id, de quo agitur or id quod cadit in controversiam
    • to put an end to, settle a dispute: controversiam sedare, dirimere, componere, tollere
    • to decide a debated question: controversiam diiudicare
    • indisputably; incontestably: sine (ulla) controversia
  • controversia in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • controversia in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Spanish

Noun

controversia f (plural controversias)

  1. controversy
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