guerre

Inherited from Middle French guerre, from Old French guerre, from Early Medieval Latin werra, borrowed from Frankish *werru (“confusion; quarrel”). Compare English war.

• 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

From Old French guerre.

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guerre f (plural guerres)

1. war (large-scale combat)

• French: guerre
  • → Wolof: xare, geer

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡwɛrə/, /ˈw-/

guerre oblique singular, 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: gùerre, dgèrre (Jersey), djère, guère (Guernsey), gyer (Sark)
• Picard: guère, dgère (Nord and Pas-de-Calais), djérre (Somme and Oise)
• Walloon: guere, guêre, guére, guère
• → Old English: werre, wyrre
  • Middle English: werre, ware, wær, weer, weorre, wer, were, werr, weyr, worre
    • English: war
    • Scots: wer, weir, war

See gaire.

guerre

1. Alternative form of gaire