QUARREL Copy link • QUARREL 1. s. jurgium: altercatio: contentio (passionate and violent, but confined to words): controversia (between two persons in array on opposite sides): rixa (a fray, broil, that threatens to come to blows): pugna (a fight) [Vid: also, DISPUTE]. To begin or seek a quarrel, causam jurgii inferre; controversiam intendere or struere; jurgium excitare; rixam movere: the quarrel is ended, rixa sedata est. 2. v. jurgare: rixari [SYN. in QUARREL, s.] : to quarrel with anybody: jurgio contendere cum aliquo; jurgiis certare cum aliquo; rixari cum aliquo; rixa mihi est cum aliquo: to quarrel among themselves, inter se altercari; jurgiis certare inter se; rixari inter se.