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See also: gùerre

guerre f ‎(plural guerres)

guerre f

guerre f (plural guerres)

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

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.