guerre

From Middle French guerre (“war”) from Old French guerre, guere (“armed conflict between individuals or states, enmity, strife between individuals”) (compare Old Northern French werre) from Late Latin *werra, *guerra, from Frankish *werra (“riot, disturbance, quarrel”) from Proto-Germanic *werrō (“confusion, disarray”), from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh”). Akin to English war, Old High German werra (“confusion, strife, quarrel”) (German verwirren (“to confuse”)), Old Saxon werran (“to confuse, perplex”), Dutch war (“confusion, disarray”), Old English wyrsa, wiersa (“worse”). More at worse, wurst.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛʁ/

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• Homophones: guerres, guère
• Hyphenation: guerre

guerre f (plural guerres)

1. war

• conflit
• hostilités

• non-violence
• paix

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

• → Wolof: xare, geer

guerre f

1. plural of guerra

• urgere

• gerre

guerre f (plural guerres)

1. war (large-scale combat)

• French: guerre
  • → Wolof: xare, geer

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

From Medieval Latin werra (“war, conflict”), Frankish *werra (“confusion, riot”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡwɛ.rə/

guerre f (oblique plural guerres, nominative singular guerre, nominative plural guerres)

1. war (large-scale conflict)

• Middle French: guerre
  • French: guerre
    • → Wolof: xare, geer
• Norman: gùerre (continental Normandy), dgèrre (Jersey), djère, guère (Guernsey), gyer (Sark)
• Picard: djérre
• Walloon: guêre, guére, guère
• → Middle English: werre, were, ware, wær, weer, weyr
  • English: war
  • Scots: wer, weir, war

see gaire

guerre

1. Alternative form of gaire