altercation

English

Etymology

Borrowed as Middle English altercacioun from Anglo-Norman altercacione, altercacioun, from Middle French altercacion, altercation (altercation in modern French); ultimately from Latin altercātiō, altercātiōn-.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɔl.tɚˈkeɪ.ʃən/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɑl.tɚˈkeɪ.ʃən/
• Hyphenation: al‧ter‧ca‧tion

• Audio (UK)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

altercation (countable and uncountable, plural altercations)

1. Heated or angry dispute
   • 1914, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear:

     "What the hell is it to you who are my friends?" roared McMurdo in a voice which brought every head in the carriage round to witness the altercation.

   The shooting resulted from an altercation between two armed intoxicated men.

Synonyms

• dispute, wrangle

Related terms

• altercative

Translations

dispute

• Azerbaijani: dava (az)
• Bengali: বিবাদ (bibad)
• Bulgarian: спор (bg) (spor)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: hádka (cs) f, svár (cs) m
• Danish: skænderi (da) n
• Dutch: woordenwisseling (nl), dispuut (nl)
• Finnish: riita (fi), kiista (fi), sanasota (fi), tappelu (fi), jupakka (fi)
• French: altercation (fr) f, dispute (fr) f
• German: heftige Auseinandersetzung f, Auseinandersetzung (de) f, Streit (de) m, Disput (de) m, Kontroverse (de) f
• Greek: διαπληκτισμός (el) m (diapliktismós)
• Hungarian: vita (hu)
• Icelandic: bræta f, rifrildi (is) n, deila (is) f, orðakast n, orðahnippingar f pl, orðaskak n, orðasenna f
• Italian: alterco (it) m, disputa (it) f, discussione (it) f, diverbio (it) m, litigio (it) m, diatriba (it) f

• Jamaican Creole: argument, cass cass
• Maori: kekeritanga, waunga
• Middle English: altercacioun
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ordveksling m or f, disputt m, krangel m

• Persian: مشاجره‎ (fa) (mošâjere)
• Polish: spór (pl) m
• Portuguese: briga (pt) f, disputa (pt) f, altercação (pt) f
• Russian: перебра́нка (ru) f (perebránka), ссо́ра (ru) f (ssóra), спор (ru) m (spor), ди́спут (ru) m (dísput), разбо́рка (ru) f (razbórka)
• Serbo-Croatian: nesporazum (sh) m, spor (sh) m, sukob (sh) m, verbalni sukob m
• Slovak: hádka (sk) f, škriepka f, zvada f, svár m
• Spanish: disputa (es) f, altercado (es) m
• Swedish: gräl (sv) n, ordväxling c

Anagrams

• relactation

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin altercatio

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al.tɛʁ.ka.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔ̃
• Homophone: altercations

Noun

altercation f (plural altercations)

1. altercation

Further reading

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