tregua

See also: trégua

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese tregua (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), probably from Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐌰 (triggwa), inflected form of 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐍃 (triggws, “true, faithful”); but attested Medieval Latin treuga points perhaps to a West Germanic *trewwa, from Proto-Germanic *trewwō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾɛɣwa̝/

Noun

tregua m (plural treguas)

1. truce
   • 1443, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. Vigo: Galaxia, page 282:

     logo o dito arçediano diso que eso meesmo por sy e por todos los seus que asy outorgaua a dita tregua torrnadiça de noue dias ao dito Pero Dias e a seus escudeiros e omes de parte á parte e de vando á vando

     then the aforementioned archdeacon said the same for him and his own, that he granted this reversible truce of nine days to the mentioned Pedro Díaz and his squires and men, side to side, band to band

2. rest, break

References

• “tregua” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “tregua” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “tregua” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “tregoa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.

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Italian

Alternative forms

• triegua (archaic)

Etymology

From Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐌰 (triggwa), inflected form of 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐍃 (triggws, “true, faithful”), from Proto-Germanic *trewwō. Compare German Treue (“loyalty”) and French trêve (“truce”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtre.ɡwa/, /ˈtrɛ.ɡwa/
• Rhymes: -eɡwa, -ɛɡwa
• Hyphenation: tre‧gua

Noun

tregua f (plural tregue)

1. truce

   Synonym: armistizio

2. rest, respite

   Synonyms: mora, pausa

Anagrams

• argute

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Spanish

Etymology

From Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐌰 (triggwa) (cognate with Frankish *trewa, Dutch trouw, German Treue; Middle English trewe, trewes, English truce).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾeɡwa/, [ˈt̪ɾe.ɣ̞wa]

Noun

tregua f (plural treguas)

1. truce
2. rest, break

Derived terms

• atreguar
• Estados de la Tregua

Further reading

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