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French
Pronunciation
Verb
querella
- third-person singular past historic of quereller
Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
querēlla f (genitive querēllae); first declension
- complaint, lament
- Synonyms: postulātum, petītiō
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
Lombard
Etymology
From Latin querella (“complaint”), from queror (“I lament, complaint”) (compare English quarrel).
Pronunciation
Noun
querella f (plural querelle)
- (law) action, plaint
Old Spanish
Etymology
From Latin querēlla, from queror (“I lament, complain”).
Pronunciation
Noun
querella f (plural querellas)
- complaint, lament
c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 23r:Sacco moẏſen todos los blagos auiſta de fijos de iſrł. dixo el nr̃o ſeñor amoẏſen Torna elblago de aarõ delant el teſtamẽt por guardo lo por ſenal a fijos de isrł ⁊ q̃dar ſe an ſus q̃rellas de ſobre mj e nõ morã- Moses brought out all the staffs in view of the children of Israel. Our Lord said to Moses, “Put Aaron's staff in front of the Testimony to keep as a sign for the children of Israel, and they will hold back their complaints against me, and they will not die.”
Derived terms
Descendants
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /keˈɾeʝa/
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /keˈɾeʎa/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /keˈɾeʃa/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /keˈɾeʒa/
- Syllabification: que‧re‧lla
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Spanish querella, from Latin querēlla (“complaint”), from queror (“to lament, complaint”) (compare English quarrel).
Noun
querella f (plural querellas)
- (law) lawsuit
- complaint
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
querella
- only used in se querella, third-person singular present indicative of querellarse
- only used in te ... querella, syntactic variant of queréllate, second-person singular imperative of querellarse
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