judicial

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin iūdiciālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʒuˈdɪʃəl/

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• Rhymes: -ɪʃəl
• Hyphenation: ju‧di‧cial

Adjective

judicial (comparative more judicial, superlative most judicial)

1. Of or relating to the administration of justice.
2. Of or relating to the court system or the judicial branch of government.
   • 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

     It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.

3. (Ireland, historical) specified by a civil bill court under the terms of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881

   judicial rent, judicial lease

4. Of or relating to judgeship or the judiciary, the collective body of judges.
5. Of or relating to sound judgment; judicious (but see Usage notes).

Synonyms

• justiciary

Usage notes

Many editors would maintain the differentiation between judicial and judicious and thus would advise that writers should not confuse judicial (having to do with justice and judiciary systems) with judicious (showing good judgment). In adhering to this prescription, a phrase such as judicious use of X (wisely chosen use of X) is not interchangeable with judicial use of X (use of X by the courts). Descriptively, judicial is polysemic, with one of its senses meaning judicious, but the purpose of the prescription is to avoid having some readers sense awkwardness or apparent catachresis in the poorly chosen (albeit descriptively not wrong) usage; the editorial idea is that regardless of correctness or incorrectness, it is preferable to use the better/clearer word instead and thus avoid any chance of reader annoyance or reader confusion/missense. Meanwhile, the word juridical is not well differentiated in meaning from judicial, the two having substantial semantic overlap.

Derived terms

• extrajudicial
• judicial astrology
• judicial factor
• judicial review
• judicial separation

 

Related terms

• judiciary
• judge

Translations

of or relating to a court of law

• Arabic: قَضَائِي‎ (qaḍāʾī)
• Armenian: դատական (hy) (datakan)
• Asturian: xudicial
• Belarusian: судо́вы (sudóvy)
• Bulgarian: съде́бен (sǎdében)
• Catalan: judicial (ca), judiciari
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 司法 (zh) (sīfǎ)

• Czech: soudní (cs) c
• Danish: retslig, juridisk
• Dutch: gerechtelijk (nl)
• Esperanto: jurisdikcia
• Finnish: oikeudellinen (fi)
• French: judiciaire (fr)
• Galician: xudicial
• Georgian: სასამართლო (sasamartlo)
• German: gerichtlich (de), Justiz- (de)
• Greek: δικαστικός (el) (dikastikós)
• Hungarian: bírósági (hu), igazságügyi (hu), bírói (hu), bűnügyi (hu), jog- (hu)
• Ido: judiciala (io)
• Irish: breithiúnach

• Italian: giudiziale (it), giudiziario (it)
• Japanese: 司法の (ja) (しほうの, shihō no)
• Kabuverdianu: judisial
• Korean: 사법의 (ko) (sabeobui)
• Latin: iūdiciālis
• Macedonian: судски m (sudski)
• Occitan: judiciari (oc)
• Old English: dōmlīċ
• Polish: sądowy (pl)
• Portuguese: judiciário (pt)
• Russian: суде́бный (ru) (sudébnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: dligheil
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: су̀дскӣ

  Roman: sùdskī (sh)

• Slovak: súdny
• Slovene: sodni
• Spanish: judicial (es)
• Swedish: rättslig (sv), juridisk (sv), judiciell (sv)
• Turkish: adli (tr)
• Ukrainian: судови́й (sudovýj)

Noun

judicial (uncountable)

1. That branch of government which is responsible for maintaining the courts of law and for the administration of justice.

   Synonym: judiciary

Translations

branch of government responsible for administration of justice

• Finnish: oikeuslaitos (fi)
• Georgian: სასამართლო (sasamartlo), სასამართლო ხელისუფლება (sasamartlo xelisupleba)

• Macedonian: судски (sudski)
• Navajo: hwoldii biłhazʼą́ą́jí

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin iūdiciālis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ʒu.di.siˈal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒu.di.siˈal/

Adjective

judicial (masculine and feminine plural judicials)

1. judicial

Derived terms

• extrajudicial
• judicialment

Related terms

• judici
• jutge
• jutjar

Further reading

• “judicial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “judicial”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022
• “judicial” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “judicial” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin iūdiciālis.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʒudiˈsjaw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʒuðiˈsjaɫ/

Adjective

judicial m or f (plural judiciais, comparable)

1. judicial

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:judicial.

Derived terms

• extrajudicial
• judicialmente

Related terms

• judiciário
• juízo
• juiz
• julgar

Further reading

• “judicial” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “judicial” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin iūdiciālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /xudiˈθjal/, [xu.ð̞iˈθjal]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /xudiˈsjal/, [xu.ð̞iˈsjal]

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Adjective

judicial (plural judiciales)

1. judicial

Derived terms

• decreto judicial
• extrajudicial
• judicialmente
• policía judicial
• tutela judicial efectiva

 

Related terms

• juicio
• juez
• juzgar

Further reading

• “judicial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014