different between controvert vs argue

English

Etymology

From post-classical Latin controvertere (6th century), from Latin contro- (“against”) + vertere (“to turn”).

Verb

controvert (third-person singular simple present controverts, present participle controverting, simple past and past participle controverted)

1. (transitive) To dispute, to argue about (something). [from 16th c.]
2. (transitive) To argue against (something or someone); to contradict, to deny. [from 16th c.]
   • 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Penguin 2004, p. 234:

     [T]hat women from their education and the present state of civilized life, are in the same condition, cannot, I think, be controverted.

3. (intransitive) To be involved or engaged in controversy; to argue. [from 17th c.]

Related terms

• controversial
• controversialist
• controversy
• controverter
• controvertible
• incontrovertible

Translations

Further reading

• controvert in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• controvert in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

From Middle English arguen, from Old French arguer, from Latin arguere (“to declare, show, prove, make clear, reprove, accuse”), q.v. for more.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???.?ju?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???.?ju/

Verb

argue (third-person singular simple present argues, present participle arguing, simple past and past participle argued)

1. To show grounds for concluding (that); to indicate, imply.
2. (intransitive) To debate, disagree, or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints.

3. (intransitive) To have an argument, a quarrel.
4. (transitive) To present (a viewpoint or an argument therefor).

5. (obsolete, transitive) To prove.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To accuse.

Derived terms

Related terms

• argument
• argumentative
• argumentation

Translations

Further reading

• argue in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• argue in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Gauer, Graue, auger, augre, rugae

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?.?y/

Verb

argue

1. first-person singular present indicative of arguer
2. third-person singular present indicative of arguer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of arguer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of arguer
5. second-person singular imperative of arguer

Anagrams

• auger, Auger
• urgea

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ar.?u.e/, [?är?u?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ar.?u.e/, [??r?u?]

Verb

argue

1. second-person singular present active imperative of argu?