🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

conflicto interno

Pronunciation / Transliteration: konˈflik.to inˈteɾ.no

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Internal strife/ɪnˈtɜːr.nəl straɪf/
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"El conflicto interno amenazó con destruir la democracia."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    Deep-seated conflict, discord, or fighting between members of the same organization, group, or nation.

    "The country struggled to recover from decades of crippling internal strife."
  2. 2

    Intense emotional or psychological conflict experienced within an individual.

    "Her public persona hid years of quiet internal strife."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'internal' (derived from the Latin 'internus', meaning 'inward') and 'strife' (from the Old French 'estrif', of Germanic origin related to 'strive'). Together, the compound phrase emerged in Middle English usage to describe persistent conflict, discord, or struggle arising from within a single organization, nation, or group.

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