guerre

See also: gùerre

French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French guerre (“war”) from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French guerre, guere (“armed conflict between individuals or states, enmity, strife between individuals”) (compare ) from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  *werra, *guerra, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  *werra (“riot, disturbance, quarrel”) from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *werrō (“confusion, disarray”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh”). Akin to English war, 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): /ɡɛʁ/

• Audio (France, Paris):

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• Homophones: guerres, guère
• Hyphenation: guerre

Noun

guerre f (plural guerres)

1. war

Synonyms

• conflit
• hostilités

Antonyms

• non-violence
• paix

Derived terms

Derived terms

• guerre mondiale
• guerre totale
• guerrier

• homme de guerre
• nom de guerre

Further reading

• “guerre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Descendants

• → Wolof: xare, geer

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Italian

Noun

guerre f

1. plural of guerra

Anagrams

• urgere

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Middle French

Alternative forms

• gerre

Noun

guerre f (plural guerres)

1. war (large-scale combat)

Descendants

• French: guerre
  • → Wolof: xare, geer

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Old French

Alternative forms

• guere, gere, gerre, were, wiere, werre

Etymology 1

From Medieval Latin werra (“war, conflict”), Frankish *werra (“confusion, riot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡwɛ.rə/

Noun

guerre oblique singular, f (oblique plural guerres, nominative singular guerre, nominative plural guerres)

1. war (large-scale conflict)

Descendants

• Middle French: guerre
  • French: guerre
    • → Wolof: xare, geer
• Bourguignon: guârre, gârre, gârre
• Norman: dgèrre, gùerre, gyer
• Picard: dgère, guère
• Walloon: guêre, guére, guère
• → Middle English: werre, ware, wær, weer, weorre, wer, were, werr, weyr, worre
  • English: war
  • Scots: war, wer, weir

Etymology 2

see gaire

Adverb

guerre

1. Alternative form of gaire