Word: 'war' • Extended Annotations
Word: 'war' • Extended Annotations
late Old English wyrre, werre "large-scale military conflict"
from Proto-Germanic *werz-a-
source also of Old Saxon werran, Old High German werran, German verwirren "to confuse, perplex"
from PIE *wers- "to confuse, mix up"
French guerre, and Spanish, Portuguese and Italian guerra are all of Germanic origin.
The Latin word for war was bellum, belli which was very close to Latin bellus, bella "fine, beautiful, pretty"
Modern German still has wirr, of the same Germanic origin, meaning "confused, crazed, tangled, scatterbrained"
“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
"1984"
| ~☉~ | lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context |
| ⚜ | classic definition |
| ☣ | artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense |