tregua

• trégua (reintegrationist)
• tregoa

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese trégua, from Medieval Latin tregua, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *trewwō, possibly Proto-West Germanic *treuwu, or possibly Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐌰 (triggwa).

• Hyphenation: tre‧gua

tregua f (plural treguas)

1. truce

   Synonym: armisticio

2. rest, break

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “tregua”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tregoa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “tregua”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

• triegua (archaic)

From Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐌰 (triggwa), from Proto-Germanic *trewwō. Compare German Treue (“loyalty”) and French trêve (“truce”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrɛ.ɡwa/, (traditional) /ˈtre.ɡwa/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛɡwa, (traditional) -eɡwa
• Hyphenation: trè‧gua, (traditional) tré‧gua

tregua f (plural tregue)

1. truce

   Synonym: armistizio

2. rest, respite

   Synonyms: mora, pausa

• argute, tuareg

• treegoa, tregoa, treguoa

From Medieval Latin tregua, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *trewwō, possibly Proto-West Germanic *treuwu, or possibly Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐌰 (triggwa).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾɛɡwa/
• Rhymes: -ɛɡwa
• Hyphenation: tre‧gua

trégua f (plural tréguas)

1. truce
   • 1443, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 282:

     logo o dito arçediano diso que eso meesmo por sy e por todos los seus que asy outorgaua a dita tregua torrnadiça de noue dias ao dito Pero Dias e a seus escudeiros e omes de parte á parte e de vando á vando

     then the aforementioned archdeacon said the same for him and his own, that he granted this reversible truce of nine days to the mentioned Pedro Díaz and his squires and men, side to side, band to band

• Fala: tregua
• Galician: tregua
• Portuguese: trégua

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “tregua”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2026), “trégua”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do português medieval [Historical and chronological vocabulary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa
• Ferreiro, Manuel (2014–2026), “tregoa”, in Universo Cantigas: edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa [Universo Cantigas: critical edition of Galician-Portuguese medieval poetry] (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “treg@a”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐌰 (triggwa) (cognate with Frankish *trewa, Dutch trouw, German Treue; Middle English trewe, trewes, English truce).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾeɡwa/ [ˈt̪ɾe.ɣ̞wa]

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• Rhymes: -eɡwa
• Syllabification: tre‧gua

tregua f (plural treguas)

1. truce
2. rest, break

• “tregua”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025