werre

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Pronunciation

Verb

werre

  1. They will
    Sie werre antworte.
    They'll respond.

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Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English werre, wyrre, borrowed from Old Northern French werre, from Medieval Latin werra, borrowed from Frankish *werru (“confusion; quarrel”).

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Noun

werre (plural werres or (rare) werren)

  1. A war; a large-scale military conflict.
    • 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum viij”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book V, by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC, leaf 87, recto; republished as H Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur , London: David Nutt, , 1889, →OCLC, page 173, lines 11–15:
      Thenne the batails approuched and ſhoue and ſhowted on bothe ſydes / many men ouerthrowen / hurte / & ſlayn and grete valyaunces / proweſſes and appertyces of werre were that day ſhewed […]
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      a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knight's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, line 1447:
      And bar him so, in pees and eke in werre […]
      And he acted so that, in peace and in war as well,
  2. A battle; an encounter between armies.
  3. Non-military conflict or strife:
    1. A joust or tourney; mock equestrian conflict.
    2. (religion) A moral conflict or struggle.
    3. (uncommon) Minor armed unrest or attacks.
  4. (hunting, rare) The struggles of one's quarry.
Descendants
  • English: war
  • Scots: wer, weir, war
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Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old Norse verri, from Proto-Germanic *wirsizô. Doublet of worse.

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwɛr(ə)/, /ˈwɔr(ə)/
  • (later) IPA(key): /ˈwar/

Adjective

werre (chiefly Northern)

  1. comparative degree of yvel; worse
  2. comparative degree of ille; worse
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Adverb

werre (chiefly Northern)

  1. comparative degree of yvel (adverb); worse
  2. comparative degree of ille (adverb); worse
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Noun

werre (uncountable) (chiefly Northern)

  1. Something or someone which is more yvel or ille (i.e. worse).
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Etymology 3

Verb

werre

  1. Alternative form of werren

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Northern French werre, from Medieval Latin werra, borrowed from Frankish *werru (“confusion; quarrel”),.

Noun

werre f

  1. (Late Old English) war (large-scale military conflict)

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Old French

Etymology

From Latin werra, from Frankish *werru

Noun

werre oblique singular, f (oblique plural werres, nominative singular werre, nominative plural werres)

  1. (Old Northern French) Alternative form of guerre
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