# controversia
## Galician
### Alternative forms

* controvérsia (reintegrationist)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kontɾoˈbɛɾsja/ [kon̪.t̪ɾoˈβ̞ɛɾ.s̺jɐ]
* Rhymes: -ɛɾsja
* Hyphenation: con‧tro‧ver‧sia

### Noun

controversia f (plural controversias)
* controversy

### Further reading

* “controversia”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin contrōversia.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kon.troˈvɛr.sja/
* Rhymes: -ɛrsja
* Hyphenation: con‧tro‧vèr‧sia

### Noun

controversia f (plural controversie)
* controversy
* dispute (legal)

#### Related terms

* controverso

### Further reading

* controversia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* arroventisco, conservatori, conversatori

## Latin
### Etymology

From contrōversus +‎ -ia.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /kon.troːˈu̯er.si.a/, [kɔn̪t̪roːˈu̯ɛrs̠iä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /kon.troˈver.si.a/, [kon̪t̪roˈvɛrsiä]

### Noun

contrōversia f (genitive contrōversiae); first declension
* a quarrel, dispute, debate
* (law) lawsuit
* contradiction

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: controvèrsia
* Czech: kontroverze
* → German: Kontroverse
* → Italian: controversia
* → Old French: controversie
** Middle English: controversie
*** English: controversy
** Middle French: controverse
*** → English: controverse
*** French: controverse
**** → Romanian: controversă
* → Polish: kontrowersja
* → Portuguese: controvérsia
* → Spanish: controversia

### 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
* controversia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (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
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin contrōversia.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kontɾoˈbeɾsja/ [kõn̪.t̪ɾoˈβ̞eɾ.sja]
* Rhymes: -eɾsja
* Syllabification: con‧tro‧ver‧sia

### Noun

controversia f (plural controversias)
* controversy
    Synonym: polémica

#### Related terms

* controversial
* controvertido

### Further reading

* “controversia”, 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