controversia

See also: controvérsia and controvèrsia

Galician

Alternative forms

• controvérsia (reintegrationist)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kontɾoˈbɛɾsja/ [kon̪.t̪ɾoˈβ̞ɛɾ.s̺jɐ]
• Rhymes: -ɛɾsja
• Hyphenation: con‧tro‧ver‧sia

Noun

controversia f (plural controversias)

1. controversy

Further reading

• “controversia”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin contrōversia.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

controversia f (plural controversie)

1. controversy
2. dispute (legal)

Related terms

• controverso

Further reading

• controversia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• arroventisco, conservatori, conversatori

Latin

Etymology

From contrōversus +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔn.troːˈwɛr.si.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kon.troˈvɛr.si.a]

Noun

contrōversia f (genitive contrōversiae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	contrōversia	contrōversiae
genitive	contrōversiae	contrōversiārum
dative	contrōversiae	contrōversiīs
accusative	contrōversiam	contrōversiās
ablative	contrōversiā	contrōversiīs
vocative	contrōversia	contrōversiae

Descendants

• → Catalan: controvèrsia
• Czech: kontroverze
• → German: Kontroverse
• → Italian: controversia
• → Old French: controversie
  • Middle English: controversie
    • English: controversy
  • Middle French: controverse
    • → English: controverse
    • French: controverse
      • → Romanian: controversă
• → Polish: kontrowersja
• → Portuguese: controvérsia
• → Spanish: controversia

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^[1], 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

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin contrōversia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kontɾoˈbeɾsja/ [kõn̪.t̪ɾoˈβ̞eɾ.sja]
• Rhymes: -eɾsja
• Syllabification: con‧tro‧ver‧sia

Noun

controversia f (plural controversias)

1. controversy

   Synonym: polémica

Related terms

• controversial
• controvertido

Further reading

• “controversia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025