Italian

Noun

controversia f ‎(plural controversie)

1. controversy
2. dispute (legal)

Anagrams

• conservatori
• conversatori

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kon.troːˈwer.si.a/, [kɔn.troːˈwɛr.si.a]

Noun

contrōversia f ‎(genitive contrōversiae); first declension

1. a quarrel, dispute, debate
2. (law) lawsuit
3. contradiction

Inflection

First declension.

Related terms

• controversus

Descendants

References

• controversia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• controversia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “controversia”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be at variance with: in controversia (contentione) esse, versari
    
  • to be at variance with: in controversiam cadere
    
  • to make a thing the subject of controversy: in controversiam vocare, adducere aliquid
    
  • to be contested, become the subject of debate: in controversiam vocari, adduci, venire (De Or. 2. 72. 291)
    
  • to leave a point undecided: in controversia relinquere aliquid
    
  • to maintain a controversy with some one: controversiam (contentionem) habere cum aliquo
    
  • the point at issue: id, de quo agitur or id quod cadit in controversiam
    
  • to put an end to, settle a dispute: controversiam sedare, dirimere, componere, tollere
    
  • to decide a debated question: controversiam diiudicare
    
  • indisputably; incontestably: sine (ulla) controversia
    
• controversia in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• controversia in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Spanish

Noun

controversia f ‎(plural controversias)

1. controversy

Related terms

• controvertido