truce

English

Etymology

From Middle English trewes, triwes, trues, plural of trewe, triewe, true ‘faithfulness, assurance, pact’, from Old English trēowa, singularized plural of trēow, trȳw (“faith; pledge; agreement”), from Proto-Germanic *trewwō (compare Dutch trouw, German Treue, Danish tro), noun form of *triwwiz (“trusty, faithful”). More at true.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹuːs/

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• Rhymes: -uːs

Noun

truce (plural truces)

1. a period of time in which no fighting takes place due to an agreement between the opposed parties
2. an agreement between opposed parties in which they pledge to cease fighting for a limited time
   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 4

     They should meet that night on some neutral spot to ratify the truce.

Synonyms

• armistice
• ceasefire

Translations

a period of time in which no fighting takes place

• Arabic: هُدْنَة‎ f (hudna)
• Armenian: զինադադար (hy) (zinadadar)
• Belarusian: перамі́р'е n (pjeramírʺje)
• Bulgarian: прими́рие (bg) n (primírie)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: treva (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 停戰 (zh), 停战 (zh) (tíngzhàn), 休戰 (zh), 休战 (zh) (xiūzhàn)

• Czech: příměří n
• Dutch: wapenstilstand (nl) m, staakt-het-vuren (nl) n
• Estonian: vaherahu, relvarahu
• Finnish: aselepo (fi)
• French: trêve (fr) f, cessez-le-feu (fr) m
• Georgian: დროებითი ზავი (droebiti zavi), ზავი (ka) (zavi)
• German: Waffenstillstand (de) m, Waffenruhe (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: σπονδαί f pl (spondaí)

• Hebrew: הפסקת אש‎ (he) f
• Hindi: युद्धविराम (yud'dhavirām), अवहार (hi) (avhār), जंगबंदी (jaṅgabandī)
• Hungarian: fegyverszünet (hu)
• Indonesian: gencatan senjata (id)
• Italian: tregua (it) f

• Japanese: 停戦 (ていせん, teisen), 休戦 (きゅうせん, kyūsen)
• Korean: 정전 (ko) (jeongjeon), 휴전 (ko) (hyujeon)
• Latin: indūtiae f pl
• Macedonian: примирје n (primirje)
• Maori: rangaawatea
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: våpenhvile (no) m or f, våpenstillstand m

  Nynorsk: våpenkvild f, våpenkvile f, våpenstillstand m

• Polish: rozejm (pl) m, zawieszenie broni (pl) n
• Portuguese: trégua (pt) f, cessar-fogo m
• Romanian: armistițiu (ro) n
• Russian: переми́рие (ru) n (peremírije), зати́шье (ru) n (zatíšʹje)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: примирје n

  Roman: primirje (sh) n

• Slovak: prímerie n
• Slovene: premirje (sl) n
• Spanish: tregua (es) f
• Swedish: vapenvila (sv) c
• Ukrainian: переми́р'я n (peremýrʺja)
• Vietnamese: đình chiến (vi), hưu chiến (vi)
• Welsh: cydymbaid m

an agreement between opposed parties

• Czech: příměří n
• Finnish: aselepo (fi)
• Hindi: दो विरोधियों के बीच संधि (do virodhiyõ ke bīc sandhi)
• Indonesian: gencatan senjata (id)
• Latin: pactiō f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: våpenhvile (no) m or f, våpenstillstand m

  Nynorsk: våpenkvild f, våpenkvile f, våpenstillstand m

• Polish: rozejm (pl) m
• Portuguese: trégua (pt) f, cessar-fogo m
• Russian: переми́рие (ru) n (peremírije)
• Slovene: premirje (sl) n
• Welsh: cydymbaid m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} trêve (fr) f
• Ido: ^{(please verify)} armistico (io)

• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} våpenhvile (no) m
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} ateşkes (tr)

Anagrams

• Crute, Curet, cruet, curet, cuter, eruct, recut

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Italian

Adjective

truce (masculine and feminine plural truci)

1. grim
2. cruel