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querele

querele noun: a complaint to a court in Old English law.

Noun

querele (plural quereles)

  1. (obsolete) A complaint to a court in Old English law.

Forms of querele

pluralquereles

Origin of querele

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.

Questions about querele

What does querele mean?
Querele means a complaint to a court in Old English law.
What part of speech is querele?
Querele is a noun.
What is the plural of querele?
The plural of querele is quereles.

Words near querele in the dictionary

  1. quercypsittid
  2. quercypsittids
  3. Querecho
  4. Querechos
  5. querela
  6. querele
  7. quereles
  8. querencia
  9. querencias
  10. Querendi
  11. Querendis

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