querelequerele means A complaint to a court in Old English law. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.EtymologyLearned borrowing from Middle English querele (“altercation, dispute; argument, debate; armed combat; trial by combat; basis for dispute, complaint; claim, legal suit; a lament; illness”), whence modern English quarrel.nounA complaint to a court in Old English law.