querele

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Middle English querele (“altercation, dispute; argument, debate; armed combat; trial by combat; basis for dispute, complaint; claim, legal suit; a lament; illness”), whence modern English quarrel.

Noun

querele (plural quereles)

1. (law, obsolete) A complaint to a court in Old English law.

Galician

Verb

querele

1. inflection of querelar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kweˈrɛ.le/
• Rhymes: -ɛle
• Hyphenation: que‧rè‧le

Noun

querele f

1. plural of querela

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin querela (“complaint”), from queror (“to lament, complain”)

Noun

querele oblique singular, f (oblique plural quereles, nominative singular querele, nominative plural quereles)

1. dispute; argument

Descendants

• Middle French: querelle
  • French: querelle
    • → German: Querele
    • → Italian: querelle
  • → Middle English: querele
    • English: quarrel

Portuguese

Verb

querele

1. inflection of querelar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

querele

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of querer combined with le