controverse

From Middle French controverse.

controverse (plural controverses)

1. (obsolete) Controversy.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.4:

     So fitly now here commeth next in place, / After the proofe of prowesse ended well, / The controverse of beauties soveraine grace […]

controverse (third-person singular simple present controverses, present participle controversing, simple past and past participle controversed)

1. (obsolete) to controvert

• seroconvert

Borrowed from French controverse.

• IPA^(key): /kɔntroːˈvɛrzə/

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controverse f (plural controversen or controverses, diminutive controversetje n)

1. controversy

controverse f (plural controverses)

1. controversy (debate, discussion of opposing opinions)

controverse

1. inflection of controverser:
   1. first-person and third-person singular present indicative
   2. first-person and third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. second-person singular imperative

• “controverse” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

controverse

1. feminine plural of controverso

contrōverse

1. vocative masculine singular of contrōversus