guerra

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡera/ [ˈɡe.ra]
• Rhymes: -era
• Syllabification: gue‧rra

guerra f (plural guerres)

1. war

   Antonym: paz

Inherited from Old Catalan guerra~gerra, from Early Medieval Latin werra, from Frankish *werru (“confusion; quarrel”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɡɛ.rə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈɡɛ.ra]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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• Rhymes: -ɛra

guerra f (plural guerres)

1. war

   Antonym: pau

• guerrilla

• → Sardinian: gherra

• “guerra”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “guerra”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “guerra” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “guerra” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese guerra, from Early Medieval Latin werra, borrowed from Frankish *werru, from *werran + *-u. Doublet of varrer.

• Rhymes: -ɛra
• Hyphenation: gue‧rra

guerra f (plural guerras)

1. war

   Antonym: paz

2. noisy confusion

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “guerra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “guerra”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “guerra”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

guerra (plural guerras)

1. war

• bello

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡwɛr.ra/

• Audio (la guerra):

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• Audio (guerra):

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• Rhymes: -ɛrra
• Hyphenation: guèr‧ra

guerra f (plural guerre, diminutive guerricciòla or (literary) guerricciuòla)

1. (also figurative) war, warfare

   Synonyms: conflitto, lotta, ostilità, scontro

   Antonym: pace

   • 13^th century, Bono Giamboni, “Capitolo 28. Del confortamento dell'arte della cavalleria, e della virtude de' Romani”, in Dell'arte della guerra [On the Art of War]‎^[1], translation of Epitoma Rei Militaris by Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, published 1815, page 37:

     E neuno si maravigli, nell'etade di sopra, le dette cose essere avvenute. Conciossiacosachè di po' la primaia guerra di Cartagine, perchè istettero i Romani venticinque anni che le battaglie per la lunga pace non usaro, in tal modo per quello riposo i Romani, che in ogni parte erano stati vincitori, indeboliro

     And no one should be surprised that the aforementioned things happened back then, since after the first Carthaginian war the Romans, having spent twenty-five years without fighting due to the long peace, happened to become weaker because of that resting, even though they had been winning everywhere

   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto II”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 3–6; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     […] io sol uno
     m'apparecchiava a sostener la guerra
     sì del cammino e sì della pietate,
     che ritrarrà la mente che non erra.

     I, alone, was getting ready to endure the suffering of both the path and the spirit, which the unerring memory will recount

   • c. 1477, Lorenzo de' Medici, Rime, collected in Opere, published 1913:

     Ogni alma, che lei vede, si asserena;
     ed io per certo infelice pur sono,
     che agli altri pace dá, a me sol guerra.

     Every soul that gazes upon her becomes serene, and yet I am certainly unhappy, for she gives peace to others, and conflict to me only.

   • 1581, Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata [Jerusalem Delivered]‎^[2], Erasmo Viotti, Canto primo, page 4:

     Disse al suo Nuntio Dio: Goffredo trova:
     E'n mio nome dì lui: perche si cessa?
     Perche la guerra homai non si rinova
     A liberar Gerusalemme oppressa?

     God said to His messenger: "Find Goffredo, and, in my name, ask him: 'Why do you stop? Why does the war to free the oppressed Jerusalem not continue?'"

   • 1723, Anton Maria Salvini, transl., Iliade [Iliad]‎^[3], Milan: Giovanni Gaetano Tartini, Santi Franchi, translation of Ἰλιάς (Iliás) by Homer, Book 1, page 8:

     Il più dell'aspra impetuosa guerra
     Le mani mie governan […]

     My hands command most of the harsh, impetuous war

   • 1825, Vincenzo Monti, transl., Iliade [Iliad], Milan: Giovanni Resnati e Gius. Bernardoni di Gio, translation of Ἰλιάς (Iliás) by Homer, published 1840, Book 1, page 13, lines 77–81:

     Atride, or sì, cred' io, volta daremo
     Nuovamente errabondi al patrio lido,
     Se pur morte fuggir ne fia concesso;
     Chè guerra e peste ad un medesmo tempo
     Ne struggono. […]

     Now, Atreid, I do believe we will head back, once again wanderers, to the native shores. That is, if we will be allowed to escape death, since war and pestilence torment us at the same time.

   • 1904, Luigi Pirandello, “5. Maturazione”, in Il fu Mattia Pascal [The Late Mattia Pascal]‎^[4], published 1919, page 42:

     Romilda, gelosa di quel figlio che sarebbe nato a Oliva, tra gli agi e in letizia; mentre il suo, nell’angustia, nell’incertezza del domani, e fra tutta quella guerra.

     Romilda, jealous of the son Oliva was going to birth in comforts and happiness, while hers in poverty, uncertainty for tomorrow, and all that war.

• → Slavomolisano: gvera

• guerra on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it
• guerra in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• guerra in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• rugare, urgerà

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡʷɛr.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɡʷɛr.ra]

guerra f (genitive guerrae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) alternative form of werra (“war”)

First-declension noun.

Locally attested since 1019, in Latin charters.

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin werra, borrowed from Frankish *werru, from *werran + *-u. Doublet of varrer.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɛ.ra/

guerra f (plural guerras)

1. war

   Antonym: paz

• Fala: guerra
• Galician: guerra
• Portuguese: guerra

• Ferreiro, Manuel (2014–2025), “guerra”, in Universo Cantigas: edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa [Universo Cantigas: critical edition of Galician-Portuguese medieval poetry] (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “guerra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “guerra”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese guerra, from Early Medieval Latin werra, borrowed from Frankish *werru, from *werran + *-u.. Related to the word varrer.

• Audio (Brazil):

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• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• Hyphenation: guer‧ra

guerra f (plural guerras)

2. war (organised, large-scale armed conflict)

   Antonym: paz

4. (uncountable) war; warfare (the waging of war)
6. (figurative) war (any large-scale conflict)

   Synonym: conflito

• guerrilha

• → Papiamentu: gera

• batalha, bélico, combate, beligerência

• uiara (Sursilvan)
• veara, gueara (Sutsilvan)
• ghera (Surmiran)

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

guerra f (plural guerras)

1. war

• verra (labiodental variant)
• 'uerra (apheretic)
• uerra (eye dialect)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈ(ɡ)wɛʐ.ʐa/, [ˈ(ɡ)wɛ.ʐːa], [ˈ(ɡ)wɛ.ɾ(ː)a]
• Rhymes: -wɛʐʐa, -wɛɾɾa
• Hyphenation: guèr‧ra

guerra f (plural guerri)

1. (also figurative) war, warfare

   Synonyms: lutta, scontru

   Antonym: paci

Inherited from Old Spanish guerra, from Early Medieval Latin werra, borrowed from Frankish *werru (“confusion; quarrel”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡera/ [ˈɡe.ra]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -era
• Syllabification: gue‧rra

guerra f (plural guerras)

1. war, warfare

   Synonyms: conflicto bélico, choque, combate, conflagración, conflicto, contienda, cruzada, enfrentamiento, guerrilla, hostilidades, lid, lucha, ofensiva, pelea, refriega

   Antonyms: paz, concordia

   La guerra entre los Estados Unidos e Irak

   The war between the United States and Iraq

• → Tagalog: gera, giyera

• “guerra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024