FromMiddle Englishtrewes,triwes,trues, plural oftrewe,triewe,true(“faithfulness, assurance, pact”), fromOld Englishtrēowa, singularized plural oftrēow,trȳw(“faith; pledge; agreement”), fromProto-West Germanic*treuwu, fromProto-Germanic*trewwō (compareDutchtrouw,GermanTreue,Danishtro,Frenchtrêve [<Germanic]), noun form of*triwwiz(“trusty, faithful”). More attrue.
truce (pluraltruces)
- Aperiod oftime in which nofightingtakes place due to anagreement between theopposedparties.
1732 October 1 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Dr. Cranstoun, “The Objections against a Regimen, Especially a Milk, Seed, and Vegetable Diet, Considered. The Case of the Learned and Ingenous Dr. Cranstoun, in a Letter to the Author at His Desire, in Dr. Cranstoun’s Own Words.”, inGeorge Cheyne,The English Malady: Or, A Treatise of Nervous Diseases of All Kinds, […], London: […] G[eorge] Strahan […]; Bath, Somerset: J. Leake, published1733,→OCLC, part III (Containing Variety of Cases that Illustrate and Confirm the Foregoing Method of Cure. […]),page321:[I]n about ſix VVeeks or tvvo Months, theDyſentery gaveTruce, in vvhich Time I vvas often fretted vvithſtrangurious Symptoms.- A figurative use.
- An agreement between opposed parties in which theypledge toceasefighting for alimited time.
2017,Neil Gaiman,Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page108:[T]hey marked theirtruce by each of them, Aesir and Vanir alike, one by one spitting into a vat. As their spit mingled, so was their agreement made binding.
period of time in which no fighting takes place
- Afrikaans:wapenstilstand
- Arabic:هُدْنَة f(hudna)
- Armenian:զինադադար (hy)(zinadadar)
- Belarusian:перамі́р'е n(pjeramírʺje)
- Breton:treverz f
- Bulgarian:прими́рие (bg) n(primírie)
- Burmese:please add this translation if you can
- Catalan:treva (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:停戰 /停战 (zh)(tíngzhàn),休戰 /休战 (zh)(xiūzhàn)
- Czech:příměří (cs) n,klid zbraní m
- Danish:våbenhvile (da) c
- Dutch:wapenstilstand (nl) m,staakt-het-vuren (nl) n
- Estonian:vaherahu,relvarahu
- Finnish:aselepo (fi)
- French:trêve (fr) f,cessez-le-feu (fr) m
- Galician:tregoa f
- Georgian:დროებითი ზავი(droebiti zavi),ზავი (ka)(zavi)
- German:Waffenstillstand (de) m,Waffenruhe (de) f
- Greek:
- Ancient:σπονδαί f pl(spondaí),ἀνοχή f(anokhḗ)
- Hebrew:הַפְסָקַת אֵשׁ (he) f(hafsakát ésh)
- Hindi:युद्धविराम(yuddhavirām),अवहार (hi)(avhār),जंगबंदी(jaṅgbandī)
- Hungarian:fegyverszünet (hu),fegyvernyugvás (hu) sg
- Indonesian:gencatan senjata (id)
- Italian:tregua (it) f
- Japanese:停戦 (ja)(ていせん, teisen),休戦 (ja)(きゅうせん, kyūsen)
- Korean:정전(停戰) (ko)(jeongjeon),휴전(休戰) (ko)(hyujeon)
- Latin:indūtiae f pl,treuga f(medieval)
- Macedonian:примирје n(primirje)
- Malay:damai sementara,limut (ms)
- Maori:rangaawatea
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:våpenhvile (no) m orf,våpenstillstand m
- Nynorsk:våpenkvild f,våpenkvile f,våpenstillstand m
- Piedmontese:treva f
- Polish:rozejm (pl) m,zawieszenie broni (pl) n
- Portuguese:trégua (pt) f,cessar-fogo m
- Romanian:armistițiu (ro) n
- Russian:переми́рие (ru) n(peremírije),зати́шье (ru) n(zatíšʹje)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic:при́мӣрје n
- Roman:prímīrje (sh) n
- Slovak:prímerie n
- Slovene:premirje (sl) n
- Spanish:tregua (es) f,inducia f
- Swedish:vapenvila (sv) c
- Tamil:சமாதானம் (ta)(camātāṉam)
- Turkish:ateşkes (tr)
- Ukrainian:переми́р'я n(peremýrʺja)
- Vietnamese:đình chiến (vi),hưu chiến (vi)
- Welsh:cadoediad (cy) m
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agreement between opposed parties
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truce (third-person singular simple presenttruces,present participletrucing,simple past and past participletruced)
- (intransitive) To come to an agreement to cease fighting.
1869, Thomas Cobbe,History of the Norman Kings of England, page330:Only undaunted Henry de Tracey[…] held up the cause;trucing at last, in loyal terms, till the king should become more powerful and be able in person to restrain the country.
Borrowed fromLatintrucem.
truce (pluraltruci)
- grim,menacing
- Synonyms:torvo,minaccioso
- cruel
- Synonym:crudele
- truce in Treccani.it –Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
