querele

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A complaint to a court in Old English law.

Word forms

querele quereles

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Middle English querele (“altercation, dispute; argument, debate; armed combat; trial by combat; basis for dispute, complaint; claim, legal suit; a lament; illness”), whence modern English quarrel.

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