From
Middle English
trewes
,
triwes
,
trues
, plural of
trewe
,
triewe
,
true
(
“
faithfulness, assurance, pact
”
)
, from
Old English
tr?owa
, singularized plural of
tr?ow
,
tr?w
(
“
faith; pledge; agreement
”
)
, from
Proto-West Germanic
*treuwu
, from
Proto-Germanic
*treww?
(compare
Dutch
trouw
,
German
Treue
,
Danish
tro
,
French
treve
[<
Germanic
]), noun form of
*triwwiz
(
“
trusty, faithful
”
)
. More at
true
.
truce
(
plural
truces
)
- A
period
of
time
in which no
fighting
takes place
due to an
agreement
between the
opposed
parties
.
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.”, in
George Cheyne
,
The English Malady: Or, A Treatise of Nervous Diseases of All Kinds,
[
…
]
, London:
[
…
]
G
[
eorge
]
Strahan
[
…
]
; Bath, Somerset: J. Leake, published
1733
,
→OCLC
, part III (Containing Variety of Cases that Illustrate and Confirm the Foregoing Method of Cure.
[
…
]
),
page
321
:
[I]n about ?ix VVeeks or tvvo Months, the
Dy?entery
gave
Truce
, in vvhich Time I vvas often fretted vvith
?trangurious Symptoms
.
- An agreement between opposed parties in which they
pledge
to
cease
fighting
for a
limited
time.
2017
,
Neil Gaiman
,
Norse Mythology
, Bloomsbury Publishing, page
108
:
[T]hey marked their
truce
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:
???????
f
(
hudna
)
- Armenian:
?????????
(hy)
(
zinadadar
)
- Belarusian:
перам??р'е
n
(
pjeramir?je
)
- Bulgarian:
прими?рие
(bg)
n
(
primirie
)
- Burmese:
please add this translation if you can
- Catalan:
treva
(ca)
f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:
停戰
／
停?
(zh)
(
tingzhan
)
,
休戰
／
休?
(zh)
(
xi?zhan
)
- Czech:
p?im??i
(cs)
n
,
klid zbrani
m
- Danish:
vabenhvile
(da)
c
- Dutch:
wapenstilstand
(nl)
m
,
staakt-het-vuren
(nl)
n
- Estonian:
vaherahu
,
relvarahu
- Finnish:
aselepo
(fi)
- French:
treve
(fr)
f
,
cessez-le-feu
(fr)
m
- Galician:
tregoa
f
- Georgian:
???????? ????
(
droebiti zavi
)
,
????
(ka)
(
zavi
)
- German:
Waffenstillstand
(de)
m
,
Waffenruhe
(de)
f
- Greek:
- Ancient:
σπονδα?
f
pl
(
spondai
)
,
?νοχ?
f
(
anokh?
)
- Hebrew:
????????? ????
(he)
f
(
hafsakat esh
)
- Hindi:
??????????
(
yuddhavir?m
)
,
?????
(hi)
(
avh?r
)
,
???????
(
ja?gband?
)
- Hungarian:
fegyverszunet
(hu)
,
fegyvernyugvas
(hu)
sg
- Indonesian:
gencatan senjata
(id)
- Italian:
tregua
(it)
f
- Japanese:
停?
(ja)
(
ていせん, teisen
)
,
休?
(ja)
(
きゅうせん, ky?sen
)
- Korean:
停戰(停戰)
(ko)
(
jeongjeon
)
,
休戰(休戰)
(ko)
(
hyujeon
)
- Latin:
ind?tiae
f
pl
,
treuga
f
(
medieval
)
- Macedonian:
примир?е
n
(
primirje
)
- Malay:
damai sementara
,
limut
(ms)
- Maori:
rangaawatea
- Norwegian:
- Bokmal:
vapenhvile
(no)
m
or
f
,
vapenstillstand
m
- Nynorsk:
vapenkvild
f
,
vapenkvile
f
,
vapenstillstand
m
- Piedmontese:
treva
f
- Polish:
rozejm
(pl)
m
,
zawieszenie broni
(pl)
n
- Portuguese:
tregua
(pt)
f
,
cessar-fogo
m
- Romanian:
armisti?iu
(ro)
n
- Russian:
переми?рие
(ru)
n
(
peremirije
)
,
зати?шье
(ru)
n
(
zati??je
)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic:
при?м?р?е
n
- Roman:
prim?rje
(sh)
n
- Slovak:
primerie
n
- Slovene:
premirje
(sl)
n
- Spanish:
tregua
(es)
f
- Swedish:
vapenvila
(sv)
c
- Tamil:
????????
(ta)
(
cam?t??am
)
- Turkish:
ate?kes
(tr)
- Ukrainian:
переми?р'я
n
(
peremyr?ja
)
- Vietnamese:
đinh chi?n
(vi)
,
h?u chi?n
(vi)
- Welsh:
cydymbaid
m
|
agreement between opposed parties
Translations to be checked
Borrowed
from
Latin
trucem
.
- IPA
(
key
)
:
/?tru.t??e/
- Rhymes:
-ut?e
- Hyphenation:
tru?ce
truce
(
plural
truci
)
- grim
,
menacing
- Synonyms:
torvo
,
minaccioso
- cruel
- Synonym:
crudele
- truce
in Treccani.it ?
Vocabolario Treccani on line
, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
