guerre

From Middle French guerre (“war”) from Old French guerre, guere (“armed conflict between individuals or states, enmity, strife between individuals”) (compare Old Northern French werre) from Medieval Latin werra, borrowed from Frankish *werru (“confusion; quarrel”), from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh”).

Akin to English war, Old High German werra (“confusion, strife, quarrel”) (German verwirren (“to confuse”)), Old Saxon werran (“to confuse, perplex”), Dutch war (“confusion, disarray”), Old English wyrsa, wiersa (“worse”). More at worse, wurst.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛʁ/

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• Homophones: guerres, guère
• Hyphenation: guerre

guerre f (plural guerres)

1. war

   Synonyms: conflit, hostilités

   Antonyms: non-violence, paix

   Le droit de la guerre est une expression pour désigner les lois, en général coutumières, sur lesquelles s'entendent les peuples ennemis lorsqu'ils sont en guerre.

   The law of war is an expression describing the laws, generally customary, that enemy peoples that are at war agree to.

• → Wolof: xare, geer

• “guerre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• “guerre” in Dictionnaire Français en ligne Larousse.
• “guerre” in Dico en ligne Le Robert.

guerre f

1. plural of guerra

• urgere

• gerre

guerre f (plural guerres)

1. war (large-scale combat)

• French: guerre
  • → Wolof: xare, geer

• guere, gere, gerre, were, wiere, werre

From Medieval Latin guerra, werra, borrowed from Frankish *werru (“confusion; quarrel”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡwɛrə/, /ˈw-/

guerre f (oblique plural guerres, nominative singular guerre, nominative plural guerres)

1. war (large-scale conflict)

• Bourguignon: guârre, gârre, gârre
• Middle French: guerre (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: dgèrre, gùerre, dgèrre; djère, guère; gyer, gyer
• Picard: dgère, djérre; guère, guère, dgère
• Walloon: guere, guêre, guére, guère
• → Middle English: werre (see there for further descendants)

See gaire.

guerre

1. Alternative form of gaire