juste

See also: Juste and justé

Esperanto

Etymology

justa +‎ -e

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuste/

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• Rhymes: -uste
• Syllabification: jus‧te

Adverb

juste

1. justly, fairly, righteously

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French juste, in this form probably borrowed from Latin iūstus, jūstus, from Proto-Italic *jowestos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yew-. The Old French form just may have been inherited, however, and perhaps later modified based on the Latin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒyst/

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Adjective

juste (plural justes)

1. fair, just
2. reasonable, appropriate, grounded
   • 1640, Pierre Corneille, Horace, act I, scene I:

     Elle n'est que trop juste en un si grand malheur

     It is only too appropriate in such misfortune

3. correct
4. (music, of an interval) perfect

   Coordinate terms: majeur, mineur, augmenté, diminué

   quinte juste ― perfect fifth

   quarte juste ― perfect fourth

5. shorter or less than desired; insufficient

   On est un peu juste en temps.

   We're a bit short on time.

   On se rend compte qu'on va être un peu juste niveau argent.

   We realise that we're going to be a bit tight in terms of money.

   Ce tailleur m’a fait mon veston trop juste.

   That tailor made my jacket too small.

Derived terms

• à juste titre
• au juste
• juste ciel
• juste milieu
• justement
• mot juste

Related terms

• justice

Noun

juste m (plural justes)

1. a righteous person

   dormir du sommeil du juste ― to sleep the sleep of the just

Adverb

juste

1. exactly, precisely

   Il est juste là ! ― It is right there!

2. (somewhat informal) just, only

   Synonyms: ne que, seulement, rien de plus (que)

   Je veux juste un œuf. ― I just want one egg.

Descendants

• → Franco-Provençal: j·usto
• → Romanian: just

Further reading

• “juste”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• jutes, jutés
• sujet
• téjus

Friulian

Etymology

See the adjective just.

Adverb

juste

1. just
2. rightly, exactly, correctly

Latin

Adjective

jūste

1. vocative masculine singular of jūstus

References

• “juste”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “juste”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• joust

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French juste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒust(ə)/

Adverb

juste

1. just

Descendants

• English: just
• Scots: juist
• Yola: gist, jist, jeist

References

• “just(e, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “just(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norman

Etymology

From Old French juste, in this form probably borrowed from Latin iūstus (“just, lawful, rightful, true, due, proper, moderate”), from iūs (“law, right”).

Adjective

juste m or f

1. (Jersey) accurate, exact

Derived terms

• justément (“accurately, exactly”)

Northern Sami

Etymology

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Adverb

juste

1. exactly, precisely, right

Alternative forms

• justa

Further reading

• Eino Koponen, Klaas Ruppel, Kirsti Aapala, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Spanish

Verb

juste

1. inflection of justar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Swedish

Etymology

From French juste.

Adjective

juste (comparative justare, superlative justast)

1. synonym of schysst

Usage notes

Said in SAOL and SO to lean more towards fair and honest compared to schysst, and to mean "according to the rules" in sports, though "juste tackling" (fair tackle), given as an example, is rarer than "schysst tackling" when comparing Google hits. Somewhat obscure and likely to be understood as a pure synonym of schysst by many native speakers.

References

• juste in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• juste in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Venetan

Adjective

juste f

1. feminine plural of justo