querella

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

querella

1. third-person singular past historic of quereller

Latin

Alternative forms

• querēla

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kʷeˈreːl.la/, [kʷɛˈreːlːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kweˈrel.la/, [kweˈrɛlːä]

Noun

querēlla f (genitive querēllae); first declension

1. complaint, lament

   Synonyms: postulātum, petītiō

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	querēlla	querēllae
genitive	querēllae	querēllārum
dative	querēllae	querēllīs
accusative	querēllam	querēllās
ablative	querēllā	querēllīs
vocative	querēlla	querēllae

Descendants

• Catalan: querella
• English: quarrel
• Galician: querela
• Old French: querele
  • Modern French: querelle
• German: Querele
• Italian: querela
• Lombard: querella, querela
• Spanish: querella
• Portuguese: querela

References

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1985) “querella”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 717
• “querella”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Lombard

Alternative forms

• querela, quarella, quarela

Etymology

From Latin querella (“complaint”), from queror (“I lament, complaint”) (compare English quarrel).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kweˈrelɑ], [kwɐ̞-], [-rɛ-]

Noun

querella f (plural querelle)

1. (law) action, plaint

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin querēlla, from queror (“I lament, complain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /keˈɾeʎa/

Noun

querella f (plural querellas)

1. 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

• querellar

Descendants

• Spanish: querella

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /keˈɾeʝa/ [keˈɾe.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /keˈɾeʝa/ [keˈɾe.ʝa]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /keˈɾeʎa/ [keˈɾe.ʎa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /keˈɾeʃa/ [keˈɾe.ʃa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /keˈɾeʒa/ [keˈɾe.ʒa]

 

• Rhymes: -eʝa

• Rhymes: -eʝa
• Rhymes: -eʎa
• Rhymes: -eʃa
• Rhymes: -eʒa

• 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)

1. (law) lawsuit
2. complaint

Derived terms

• querellarse

 

Etymology 2

Verb

querella

1. only used in se querella, third-person singular present indicative of querellarse
2. only used in te ... querella, syntactic variant of queréllate, second-person singular imperative of querellarse

Further reading

• “querella”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10