Meanings
plural treagues
- obsoleteA truce.
She them besought, during their quiet treague, Into her lodging to repaire a while […]
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC1 more example
[…] and as for any treague or cessation of arms the same is held no less dangerous, and that for sundry considerations, amongst the which these are not thought to be the least, that the frontiers must be still garrisoned, the soldiers paid and the[…]
1899, Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Most Hon. the Marquis of Salisbury, K. G., etc. preserved at Hatfield House, Hertfordshire: Historical Manuscripts Commission. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty, page 61
Origin
- Proto-Germanic*trewwō“fidelity; pledge”
- Gothic𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐌰“treaty, covenant”
- Medieval Latintreuga
- Englishtreague
From Medieval Latin treuga, from Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐌰 (triggwa, “treaty, covenant”), from Proto-Germanic *trewwō (“fidelity; pledge”). More at true, truce.
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