guerre

common noun

Syllable Decomposition

guerre

from Frankish werra ("quarrel"), which supplanted, in popular Latin, the classical Latin bellum ("war"), confused with the adjective bellus ("beautiful"), which became very frequent after having itself supplanted the classical pulcher ("beautiful"). Frankish is related to the Latin versus ("opposite"). It is related to the English war, the German ver-wirren ("to confuse").

Definitions

politique
militaire

Synonyms

conflithostilité

Antonyms

Plural

guerres

Translations

  • germangerman:Krieg
  • englishenglish:war
  • arabicarabic:حرب
  • chinesechinese:战争
  • koreankorean:전쟁
  • danishdanish:krig
  • spanishspanish:guerra
  • finnishfinnish:sota
  • greekgreek:πόλεμος
  • hebrewhebrew:מלחמה
  • italianitalian:guerra
  • japanesejapanese:戦争
  • dutchdutch:oorlog
  • polishpolish:wojna
  • portugueseportuguese:guerra
  • russianrussian:война
  • swedishswedish:krig
  • turkishturkish:savaş

See also