werra

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search
See also: Werra

Latin

[edit]

Alternative forms

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

    Borrowed from Frankish *werru (riot, quarrel). First attested in 858 CE.[1]

    Noun

    [edit]

    werra f (genitive werrae); first declension (Early Medieval Latin)

    1. war
      Synonym: bellum (Classical)
      • 13th century, Roger of Wendover, Flores Historiarum, a. 1216:
        Ad hoc nuntii responderunt, quod rex Angliae ante crucem sumptam werram moverat domino Lodowico et damna multa fecerat, castra sua ceperat et adhuc milites suos et servientes incarceratos retinet, et hucusque in werra est contra dominum Lodowicum, nec pacem vel treugam cum eo habere voluit, super hoc etiam saepe requisitus.
        To this the nuncios replied that the king of England had made war on lord Louis before taking the cross, and had done much harm, had seized his castles and still retained his subject prisoners and soldiers, and was yet at war against lord Louis, and did not desire to make either peace or truce with him, even as he was frequently requested to do so.
      • 1294, “Convenzione tra il Comune di Sassari, e il Comune di Genova”, in Codex diplomaticus Sardiniae, volume 1, page 519:
        [] comune et homines de Sassari et districtu, quem nunc habet et in posterum acquisiverit, faciet et facient pacem, guerram et treugam cum omnibus personis, universitatibus, locis, regibus, principibus, atque dominis, ubicumque sint et quocumque nomine censeantur, cum quibus comune Ianue pacem, guerram vel treugam habet []
        [] the commune and people of Sassari and of the territory that it has now and will have acquired in future, make peace, war and truce with all persons, corporations, places, kings, princes, and lords, wherever they may be and by whatever name they are called, with which the commune of Genoa has made peace, war or truce []
    2. strife, insurrection

    Declension

    [edit]

    First-declension noun.

    Case Singular Plural
    Nominative werra werrae
    Genitive werrae werrārum
    Dative werrae werrīs
    Accusative werram werrās
    Ablative werrā werrīs
    Vocative werra werrae

    Derived terms

    [edit]

    Descendants

    [edit]

    References

    [edit]
    1. ^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “werra”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1133

    Nyunga

    [edit]

    Adjective

    [edit]

    werra

    1. no good
      • Papers of Daisy Bates, National Library of Australia, MS 365, Section XII, Language: Grammar And Vocabularies, Part 2. B. 3. (a), Southwestern District, Jakbum & Wabbinyet of Albany:
        alle werra (that is no good)

    References

    [edit]

    Old High German

    [edit]

    Etymology

    [edit]

    From Proto-West Germanic *werru (confusion; quarrel).

    Noun

    [edit]

    werra f

    1. trouble

    Descendants

    [edit]

    Old Saxon

    [edit]

    Etymology

    [edit]

    From Proto-West Germanic *werru (confusion; quarrel).

    Noun

    [edit]

    werra f

    1. trouble

    Descendants

    [edit]