köken: Borrowed from Medieval Latin armistitium, from Latin arma (“weapons”) and statio (“immobility”) (compare solstitium). Cognate with Italian armistizio, Spanish armisticio.
köken: Borrowed from Medieval Latin armistitium, from Latin arma (“weapons”) and statio (“immobility”) (compare solstitium). Cognate to French armistice, French armistice, Italian armistizio, Portuguese armistício, Catalan armistici.
köken: Borrowed from Medieval Latin armistitium, from Latin arma (“weapons”) and statio (“immobility”) (compare solstitium). Cognate to French and English armistice; Galician and Spanish armisticio; Portuguese armistício; Catalan armistici.
köken: Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin armistitium, from Latin arma (“weapons”) and statio (“immobility”) (compare solstitium). Cognate to Galician and Spanish armisticio, French and English armistice, Italian armistizio, Catalan armistici.
köken: Learnedly, from Koine Greek ἀνακωχή (anakōkhḗ), late form of Ancient Greek ἀνοκωχή (anokōkhḗ) with analogical restoration to the < ἀν(α)- (an(a)-) compounds + ὀκωχή f (okōkhḗ, “hold, stay”).
köken: ase (“weapon”) + lepo (“rest”), probably a calque of Swedish vapenvila (“truce”). Coined by Finnish politician, historian and professor Yrjö Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen in 1877.