arraignment

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English arraign

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom

Proto-Italic *-məntom

Latin -mentum

Old French -mentbor.

Middle English -ment

English -ment

English arraignment

From arraign + -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈɹeɪnmənt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

arraignment (countable and uncountable, plural arraignments)

1. (law) The formal charging of a defendant with an offense; in many jurisdictions it includes their response in the form of a plea, typically as guilty, not guilty, or no contest.
   • 2020 March 11, Jan Ransom, “Harvey Weinstein’s Stunning Downfall: 23 Years in Prison”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     This process, Mr. Rothfeld said, could be interrupted at any moment if prosecutors in Los Angeles successfully extradite him for an arraignment on the sexual assault charges there.

   • 2023 March 30, William K. Rashbaum, “This is what will happen when Trump is arrested in the coming days.”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     […] — the indictment will remain sealed until his expected arraignment on Tuesday, when the charges will be formally revealed.

Derived terms

• nonarraignment
• rearraignment

Translations

charging of a defendant

• Afrikaans: aanklag
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 傳訊 / 传讯 (zh) (chuánxùn)

• Dutch: voorgeleiding (nl) f
• Finnish: syytteenluku
• French: lecture de l'acte d'accusation f
• German: Anklage (de) f, Anklageverlesung f
• Hungarian: vádemelés (hu)
• Japanese: 罪状認否 (zaijō nimpi), アレインメント (areinmento)
• Norwegian: tiltale (no) m
• Portuguese: processo (pt) m
• Russian: предъявле́ние обвине́ния n (predʺjavlénije obvinénija)
• Spanish: acusación (es) f, orden de comparecencia f
• Swedish: anklagelse (sv)
• Tagalog: pagbasa ng sakdal
• Turkish: itham (tr), suçlama (tr)

See also

• indictment

Further reading

• arraignment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia