Translation
to quarrel
Word origin
From Latin querela ('a complaint'), which reached the modern languages through French quereller and gave English quarrel.
- Origin
- Latin, via French
- Root
- querela
- English cognates
- quarrel, querulous
Examples
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The two brothers often quarrel about money.
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We quarrelled, but now we are friends again.
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Why are you quarrelling with your friend?
You quarrel a person and a subject. is the heated domestic row; is the argument you can have politely across a table. The noun kverelo is the row itself.
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