treuga
Latin
FWOTD – 11 November 2025
Alternative forms
- trava, treba, trebua, trega, tregia, tregua, treoa, trequa, treuca, treugua, treva, trevia, trewa, tria, triva
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *trewwō (“pledge, covenant”). The forms with v (b, w) are often derived from Proto-West Germanic *treuwu, those with g (c, q) instead from Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐌰 (triggwa); but this is not certain since Germanic /w/ commonly surfaces as Romance /ɡw/. Cognate with English truce.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtrɛu̯.ɡa]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtrɛːu̯.ɡa]
Noun
treuga f (genitive treugae); first declension (Medieval Latin)
- pledge
- security for a pledge
- truce, armistice
- Synonym: indūtiae
- treuga Deī ― truce of God
- tribute, especially for the maintenance of a peace
Declension
First-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | treuga | treugae |
| genitive | treugae | treugārum |
| dative | treugae | treugīs |
| accusative | treugam | treugās |
| ablative | treugā | treugīs |
| vocative | treuga | treugae |
Descendants
- Italian: tregua
- Occitan: tregua
- Old Galician-Portuguese: tregua, treegoa, tregoa, treguoa
- Old Spanish:
- Spanish: tregua
- → English: treague
References
- "treuga", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “treuga”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “trewa”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1041
- Magnús Snædal (2011), “Gothic ‹ggw›”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Jagellonicae Cracoviensis, volume 128, Cracow, page 151: “Apparently, these forms are best explained as originating in a West-Germanic dialect (not affected by Holtzmann’s law) and that the -g- is part of the Romanisation; [...].”