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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɹuːs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tɹus/

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• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹʉs/
• 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.
   • 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 ſix VVeeks or tvvo Months, the Dyſentery gave Truce, in vvhich Time I vvas often fretted vvith ſtrangurious Symptoms.

     A figurative use.

2. An agreement between opposed parties in which they pledge to cease fighting for a limited time.
   • 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter IV, in The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

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

   • 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.

Synonyms

• armistice
• cease-fire

Translations

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 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, 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 m

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: cadoediad 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
• Hyphenation: trù‧ce

Adjective

truce (plural truci)

1. grim, menacing

   Synonyms: torvo, minaccioso

2. cruel

   Synonym: crudele

Derived terms

• trucemente

Further reading

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