truce

English

Etymology

From Middle English trewes, triwes, trues, plural of trewe, triewe, true (“faithfulness, assurance, pact”), from Old English trēowa, singularized plural of trēow, trȳw (“faith; pledge; agreement”), from Proto-West Germanic *treuwu, from Proto-Germanic *trewwō (compare Dutch trouw, German Treue, Danish tro, French trêve [< Germanic]), noun form of *triwwiz (“trusty, faithful”). More at true.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɹuːs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tɹus/

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• Rhymes: -uːs

Noun

truce (plural truces)

1. a period of time in which no fighting takes place due to an agreement between the opposed parties
2. an agreement between opposed parties in which they pledge to cease fighting for a limited time
   • 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter 4, in The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

     They should meet that night on some neutral spot to ratify the truce.

Synonyms

• armistice
• ceasefire

Translations

a period of time in which no fighting takes place

• Afrikaans: wapenstilstand
• Arabic: هُدْنَة‎ f (hudna)
• Armenian: զինադադար (hy) (zinadadar)
• Belarusian: перамі́р'е n (pjeramírʺje)
• 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: tregua 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)
• 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)
• Maori: rangaawatea
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: våpenhvile (no) m or f, 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
• Swedish: vapenvila (sv) c
• Tamil: சமாதானம் (ta) (camātāṉam)
• Ukrainian: переми́р'я n (peremýrʺja)
• Vietnamese: đình chiến (vi), hưu chiến (vi)
• Welsh: cydymbaid m

an agreement between opposed parties

• Czech: příměří (cs) n
• Danish: våbenhvile (da) c
• Finnish: aselepo (fi)
• Hindi: दो विरोधियों के बीच संधि (do virodhiyõ ke bīc sandhi)
• Indonesian: gencatan senjata (id)
• Latin: pactiō f, treuga f (medieval)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: våpenhvile (no) m or f, våpenstillstand m

  Nynorsk: våpenkvild f, våpenkvile f, våpenstillstand m

• Polish: rozejm (pl) m
• Portuguese: trégua (pt) f, cessar-fogo m
• Russian: переми́рие (ru) n (peremírije)
• Slovene: premirje (sl) n
• Welsh: cydymbaid m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} trêve (fr) f
• Ido: ^{(please verify)} armistico (io)
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} våpenhvile (no) m
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} ateşkes (tr)

Anagrams

• Crute, Curet, cruet, curet, cuter, eruct, recut, uCret

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin trucem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtru.t͡ʃe/
• Rhymes: -utʃe
• Syllabification: trù‧ce

Adjective

truce (plural truci)

1. grim, menacing

   Synonyms: torvo, minaccioso

2. cruel

   Synonym: cruele

Derived terms

• trucemente

Further reading

• truce in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana