controverse

Borrowed from Middle French controverse.

• IPA^(key): (noun) /ˈkɒntɹəvɜː(ɹ)s/

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• IPA^(key): (verb) /kɒntɹəˈvɜː(ɹ)s/

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controverse (plural controverses)

1. (obsolete) Controversy.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     So fitly now here commeth next in place,
     After the proofe of prowesse ended well,
     The controverse of beauties soveraine grace […]

controverse (third-person singular simple present controverses, present participle controversing, simple past and past participle controversed)

1. (obsolete) to controvert

• seroconvert

From Middle Dutch controversie, from Old French controversie, from Latin contrōversia. The current spelling controverse is due to later influence from Middle French and modern French.

• IPA^(key): /kɔntroːˈvɛrzə/

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• Hyphenation: con‧tro‧ver‧se

controverse f (plural controversen or controverses, diminutive controversetje n)

1. controversy

• controversieel

Inherited from Middle French controverse, Old French controversie, from Latin contrōversia.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.tʁɔ.vɛʁs/

controverse f (plural controverses)

1. controversy (debate, discussion of opposing opinions)

controverse

1. inflection of controverser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “controverse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

controverse

1. feminine plural of controverso

contrōverse

1. vocative masculine singular of contrōversus

• IPA^(key): [kontroˈverse]

controverse f

1. inflection of controversă:
   1. indefinite plural
   2. indefinite genitive/dative singular