controverse
See also: controversé
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French controverse.
Pronunciation
- (noun) IPA(key): /ˈkɒntɹəvɜː(ɹ)s/
Audio (UK) (file) - (verb) IPA(key): /kɒntɹəˈvɜː(ɹ)s/
Audio (UK) (file)
Noun
controverse (plural controverses)
- (obsolete) Controversy.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
- So fitly now here commeth next in place,
After the proofe of prowesse ended well,
The controverse of beauties soveraine grace […]
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Verb
controverse (third-person singular simple present controverses, present participle controversing, simple past and past participle controversed)
- (obsolete) to controvert
Anagrams
- seroconvert
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch controversie, from Old French controversie, from Latin contrōversia. The current spelling controverse is due to later influence from Middle French and modern French.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔntroːˈvɛrzə/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: con‧tro‧ver‧se
Noun
controverse f (plural controversen or controverses, diminutive controversetje n)
- controversy
Derived terms
- controversieel
French
Noun
controverse f (plural controverses)
- controversy (debate, discussion of opposing opinions)
Verb
controverse
- inflection of controverser:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “controverse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Adjective
controverse
- feminine plural of controverso
Latin
Adjective
contrōverse
- vocative masculine singular of contrōversus
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kontroˈverse]
Noun
controverse f
- inflection of controversă:
- indefinite plural
- indefinite genitive/dative singular