querelle
See also: querellé
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kə.ʁɛl/
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Etymology 1
From Old French querele, from Latin querella (“complaint”), from queror (“I lament, I complain”).
Noun
querelle f (plural querelles)
- quarrel, argument
Derived terms
- chercher querelle
- quereller
- querelle de clocher
Descendants
- → Italian: querelle
Verb
querelle
- inflection of quereller:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “querelle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from French querelle.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /keˈrɛl/[1]
- Rhymes: -ɛl
Noun
querelle f (invariable)
- controversy, quarrel, argument
References
- querelle in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Further reading
- querelle in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Middle French
Noun
querelle f (plural querelles)
- dispute; argument
Spanish
Verb
querelle
- only used in me querelle, first-person singular present subjunctive of querellarse
- only used in se querelle, third-person singular present subjunctive of querellarse
- only used in se ... querelle, syntactic variant of queréllese, third-person singular imperative of querellarse