# querella
## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

querella
* third-person singular past historic of quereller

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* querēla

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /kʷeˈreːl.la/, [kʷɛˈreːlːʲä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /kweˈrel.la/, [kweˈrɛlːä]

### Noun

querēlla f (genitive querēllae); first declension
* complaint, lament
    Synonyms: postulātum, petītiō

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* Catalan: querella
* English: quarrel
* Galician: querela
* Old French: querele
** Modern French: querelle
* German: Querele
* Italian: querela
* Lombard: querella, querela
* Spanish: querella
* Portuguese: querela

### References

* Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1985) “querella”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 717
* “querella”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

## Lombard
### Alternative forms

* querela, quarella, quarela

### Etymology

From Latin querella (“complaint”), from queror (“I lament, complaint”) (compare English quarrel).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [kweˈrelɑ], [kwɐ̞-], [-rɛ-]

### Noun

querella f (plural querelle)
* (law) action, plaint

## Old Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin querēlla, from queror (“I lament, complain”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /keˈɾeʎa/

### Noun

querella f (plural querellas)
* complaint, lament
** c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 23r:Sacco moẏſen todos los blagos auiſta de fijos de iſrł. dixo el nr̃o ſeñor amoẏſen Torna elblago de aarõ delant el teſtamẽt por guardo lo por ſenal a fijos de isrł ⁊ q̃dar ſe an ſus q̃rellas de ſobre mj e nõ morãMoses brought out all the staffs in view of the children of Israel. Our Lord said to Moses, “Put Aaron's staff in front of the Testimony to keep as a sign for the children of Israel, and they will hold back their complaints against me, and they will not die.”

#### Derived terms

* querellar

#### Descendants

* Spanish: querella

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /keˈɾeʝa/ [keˈɾe.ʝa]
* IPA: (most of Spain and Latin America) /keˈɾeʝa/ [keˈɾe.ʝa]
* IPA: (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /keˈɾeʎa/ [keˈɾe.ʎa]
* IPA: (Buenos Aires and environs) /keˈɾeʃa/ [keˈɾe.ʃa]
* IPA: (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /keˈɾeʒa/ [keˈɾe.ʒa]
* Rhymes: -eʝa
* Rhymes: -eʝa
* Rhymes: -eʎa
* Rhymes: -eʃa
* Rhymes: -eʒa
* Syllabification: que‧re‧lla

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish querella, from Latin querēlla (“complaint”), from queror (“to lament, complaint”) (compare English quarrel).

#### Noun

querella f (plural querellas)
* (law) lawsuit
* complaint

##### Derived terms

* querellarse

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

querella
* only used in se querella, third-person singular present indicative of querellarse
* only used in te ... querella, syntactic variant of queréllate, second-person singular imperative of querellarse

### Further reading

* “querella”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10