appellate

English

Etymology

From Latin appellātus.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /əˈpɛlət/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɛlət

Adjective

appellate (not comparable)

1. That can be (legally) appealed to, especially of a court that hears appeals of decisions by a lower court.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 228:

     In this game of bluff and counter-bluff, the parlementaires calculated that their absence – which entailed much of the country being without an appellate jurisdiction – would force the government to treat for terms.

Derived terms

• appellate court
• appellate jurisdiction

 

Translations

pertaining to something that is appealed to

• Armenian: վերաքննիչ (hy) (verakʻnničʻ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 受理上訴的／受理上诉的 (shòulǐ shàngsù de), 上訴／上诉 (zh) (shàngsù)

• Czech: odvolací m
• Finnish: valitus- (fi), vetoomus- (fi)
• Greek: εφετικός (el) m (efetikós)
• Kazakh: апелляциялық (apelläsiälyq)
• Polish: apelacyjny (pl)
• Portuguese: apelado (pt), apelatório
• Russian: апелляцио́нный (ru) (apelljaciónnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: apelacijski (sh), prizivni (sh)

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

appellate

1. inflection of appellare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

appellate f pl

1. feminine plural of appellato

Latin

Verb

appellāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of appellō

Participle

appellāte

1. vocative masculine singular of appellātus