iudicium

Latin

Alternative forms

• jūdicium

Etymology

From iūdicō (“I judge, decide”) +‎ -ium (nominal suffix). Compare iūdex (“a judge”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /i̯uːˈdi.ki.um/, [i̯uːˈd̪ɪkiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /juˈdi.t͡ʃi.um/, [juˈd̪iːt͡ʃium]

Noun

iūdicium n (genitive iūdiciī or iūdicī); second declension

1. judgment, decision
2. opinion
3. trial
4. wish, desire

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	iūdicium	iūdicia
Genitive	iūdiciī iūdicī1	iūdiciōrum
Dative	iūdiciō	iūdiciīs
Accusative	iūdicium	iūdicia
Ablative	iūdiciō	iūdiciīs
Vocative	iūdicium	iūdicia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Synonyms

• (judgment, decision): dēfīnītiō (Classical), perfīnītiō (Mediaeval)

Descendants

• → Albanian: gjyq
• Aromanian: giudets
• → Asturian: xuiciu
• Asturian: xixu
• → Catalan: judici, Catalan: juí
• → Friulian: judizi
• → Indonesian: yudisium
• → Italian: iudicio, giudicio, giudizio
• Lombard: giudizzi
• Piedmontese: giudissi
• → Old Spanish: judizio, juyzio
  • Spanish: juicio
• Portuguese: juízo
• Romanian: județ
• Sardinian: giudísciu
• Sicilian: judizziu
• → Spanish: judicio

References

• “iudicium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• iudicium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• iudicium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to act in accordance with one's convictions: suo iudicio uti
    
  • to criticise: iudicium facere
    
  • to be a man of taste: sensum, iudicium habere
    
  • good taste; delicate perception: iudicium subtile, elegans, exquisitum, intellegens
    
  • to cultivate one's powers of criticism: iudicium acuere
    
  • on principle: ratione; animi quodam iudicio
    
  • to have no principles: omnia temere agere, nullo iudicio uti
    
  • to give the state a constitution: civitati leges, iudicia, iura describere
    
  • lawlessness; anarchy: iudicia nulla
    
  • to summon some one before the court: in ius, in iudicium vocare aliquem
    
  • to appear in court: in iudicium venire, in iudicio adesse
    
  • to have charge of the administration of justice: iudicia administrare
    
  • to administer justice; to judge (used of criminal cases before the praetor): iudicium exercere (vid. sect. V. 7, note The first...)
    
  • to be president of a court: iudicio praeesse
    
  • judicial organisation: ratio iudiciorum
    
  • to win a case: causā or iudicio vincere
    
  • to rescind a decision: iudicium rescindere
    
• “iudicium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers