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 (“to lament, to complain”).

Noun

querelle f (plural querelles)

1. quarrel, argument

Derived terms

• chercher querelle
• quereller
• querelle de clocher

Descendants

• → Italian: querelle

Etymology 2

Verb

querelle

1. inflection of quereller:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. 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)

1. controversy, quarrel, argument

References

1. 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)

1. dispute; argument

Spanish

Verb

querelle

1. only used in me querelle, first-person singular present subjunctive of querellarse
2. only used in se querelle, third-person singular present subjunctive of querellarse
3. only used in se ... querelle, syntactic variant of queréllese, third-person singular imperative of querellarse