guerra

Etymology

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”).

Noun

guerra f (plural guerres)

1. war

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

guerra f (plural guerres)

1. war

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɛra̝/

Noun

guerra f (plural guerras)

1. war
2. noisy confusion

References

• “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 Santamarina, Antón (coord.): Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• “guerra” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Noun

guerra

1. war

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡwɛr.ra/, [ˈɡwɛr̺ːä]

• Audio (la guerra)

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• Audio (guerra)

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• Hyphenation: guèr‧ra

Noun

guerra f (plural guerre)

1. (also figuratively) war, warfare

   Synonyms: conflitto, lotta, ostilità, scontro

   Antonym: pace

Further reading

• guerra on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Anagrams

• urgerà

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɛ.ra/

Noun

guerra f (plural guerras)

1. war

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio

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Noun

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)

See also

• batalha, bélico, combate, beligerência

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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”).

Noun

guerra f (plural guerras)

1. war

Alternative forms

• verra, uerra

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

guerra f (plural guerri)

1. war

Etymology

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”). Compare Portuguese guerra, Italian guerra, French guerre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡera/

Noun

guerra f (plural guerras)

1. war, warfare

   La guerra entre los Estados Unidos e Irak

   The war between the United States and Iraq

Further reading

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