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.
köken: From Proto-Germanic *trewwō (“pledge, covenant”). The forms with v (b, w) are often derived from Proto-West Germanic *treuwu, those with g (c, q) instead from Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐌰 (triggwa); but this is not certain since Germanic /w/ commonly surfaces as Romance /ɡw/. Cognate with English truce.