justice

See also: Justice

§English

§Etymology

From Middle English justice from Old French justise, justice (Modern French justice), from Latin iustitia 'righteousness, equity', from iustus "just", from ius 'right', from Old Latin ious, perhaps literally "sacred formula", a word peculiar to Latin (not general Italic) that originated in the religious cults, from Proto-Indo-European *yews-. Replaced native Middle English rightwished, rightwisnes "justice" (from Old English rihtwīsnes "justice, righteousness", compare Old English ġerihte "justice").

§Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒʌs.tɪs/

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§Noun

justice (usually uncountable, plural justices)

1. The state or characteristic of being just or fair.

   the justice of a description

   • Shakespeare

     This even-handed justice / Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice / To our own lips.

2. The ideal of fairness, impartiality, etc., especially with regard to the punishment of wrongdoing.

   Justice was served.

3. Judgment and punishment of a party who has allegedly wronged another.

   to demand justice

4. The civil power dealing with law.

   Ministry of Justice

   the justice system

5. A judge of certain courts. Also capitalized as a title.

   Mr. Justice Krever presides over the appellate court

6. Correctness, conforming to reality or rules.

§Antonyms

• injustice

§Derived terms

Terms derived from "justice"

Chief Justice commutative justice distributive justice

divine justice do justice justice of the peace

poetic justice puisne justice strict justice

§Related terms

Terms etymologically related to "justice"

just justiciable

justiciar

unjust

§Translations

state of being just or fair

• Arabic: عدل (ar) m (`adl)
• Armenian: արդարություն (hy) (ardarutʿyun)
• Asturian: xusteza f, xusticia f
• Azeri: ədalət (az)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: justesa f, justícia f
• Cherokee: ᏚᏳᎪᏛ (duyugodv)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 正義 (zh), 正义 (zh) (zhèngyì), 公道 (zh) (gōngdào), 公平 (zh) (gōngpíng)

• Czech: spravedlnost f
• Danish: ret (da) c, retfærdighed c
• Dutch: gerechtigheid (nl), rechtvaardigheid (nl)
• Esperanto: justeco
• French: justice (fr) f
• Friulian: justizie f
• Galician: xusteza f, xustiza f
• German: Gerechtigkeit (de) f
• Greek: δικαιοσύνη (el) f (dikaiosýni)
• Gujarati: ન્યાયમૂર્તિ
• Hungarian: igazságosság (hu), pártatlanság
• Ido: equitato (io)
• Indonesian: keadilan (id)
• Italian: giustizia (it) f
• Japanese: 正義 (ja) (せいぎ, seigi), 公正 (ja) (こうせい, kōsei), 公平 (ja) (こうへい, kōhei)

• Khmer: យុត្តិធម៌ (km) (yutte’-tʰoa)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: داد (ku)

• Malay: adalat (ms)
• Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
• Occitan: justesa f, justícia (oc) f
• Old Provençal: justicia
• Persian: داد (fa) (dâd), عدل (fa) (adl)
• Polish: sprawiedliwość (pl) f
• Portuguese: justiça (pt) f, justeza (pt) f
• Romanian: justiție (ro), dreptate (ro) f, justețe (ro) f
• Russian: справедливость (ru) f (spravedlivostʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: còir f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: право n, правда f

  Roman: právo n, prȃvda f

• Slovak: spravodlivosť
• Slovene: pravica (sl) f, pravičnost (sl) f
• Spanish: justicia (es) f, justedad f, justeza f
• Swedish: rättvisa (sv) f
• Turkish: adalet (tr)
• Yiddish: גערעכטיקייט f (gerekhtikeyt)

fairness, especially with regard to punishment

• Arabic: عدل (ar) (`adl)
• Armenian: արդարություն (hy) (ardarutʿyun)
• Azeri: ədalət (az)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: justícia f
• Cherokee: ᏚᏳᎪᏛ (duyugodv)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 正義 (zh), 正义 (zh) (zhèngyì), 公道 (zh) (gōngdào), 公平 (zh) (gōngpíng), 公義, 公义 (zh) (gōngyì), 公義

• Czech: spravedlnost f
• Danish: retfærdighed c
• Dutch: gerechtigheid (nl), recht (nl), rechtvaardigheid (nl)
• French: justice (fr)
• German: Gerechtigkeit (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: δικαιοσύνη f (dikaiosúnē)

• Hungarian: igazságszolgáltatás (hu)
• Italian: giustizia (it) f
• Japanese: 正義 (ja) (せいぎ, seigi)
• Khmer: តុលាការ (km) (to’laakaa)
• Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: sprawiedliwość (pl) f
• Portuguese: justiça (pt) f
• Romanian: justiție (ro)
• Russian: справедливость (ru) f (spravedlivostʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: còir f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: правда f

  Roman: prȃvda f

• Slovene: pravica (sl) f
• Turkish: adalet (tr)
• Yiddish: גערעכטיקייט f (gerekhtikeyt)

judgment and punishment of who wronged another

• Arabic: عدل (ar) m (`adl)
• Azeri: ədalət (az)
• Dutch: gerechtigheid (nl), recht (nl), rechtsbedeling, berechting
• French: justice (fr)
• Khmer: សាលក្រម (saal krɑm)
• Polish: sprawiedliwość (pl) f
• Portuguese: justiça (pt) f

• Russian: справедливость (ru) f (spravedlivostʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: còir f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: правда f

  Roman: prȃvda f

• Turkish: adalet (tr)

the civil power dealing with law

• Arabic: عدل (ar) m (`adl)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 司法 (zh) (sīfǎ), 法官 (zh) (fǎguān)

• Dutch: gerecht (nl) n, justitie (nl)
• French: justice (fr)
• Georgian: მართლმსაჯულება (mart’lmsaǰuleba)
• Japanese: 司法 (ja) (しほう, shihō)
• Khmer: យុត្តិធម៌ (km) (yutte’-tʰoa)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: داد (ku) (dad)

• Polish: sprawiedliwość (pl) f
• Portuguese: justiça (pt) f
• Romanian: justiție (ro) f
• Russian: правосудие (ru) n (pravosudije), юстиция (ru) f (justicija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: правда f

  Roman: prȃvda f

• Spanish: justicia (es) f

a judge of certain courts

• Catalan: justícia m
• Cherokee: ᏗᎫᎪᏗᏍᎩ (digugodisgi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 法官 (zh) (fǎguān), 裁判官 (zh) (cáipànguān)

• Dutch: raadsheer (nl) (rough equivalent)
• French: conseiller (fr) (rough equivalent)

• Japanese: 裁判官 (さいばんかん, saibánkan), 法官 (ja) (ほうかん, hōkan)
• Khmer: ចៅក្រម (cav krɑm)
• Polish: sędzia (pl) f
• Romanian: judecător (ro) m
• Russian: судья (ru) m (sudʹja)

correctness

• Dutch: recht (nl)
• French: justice (fr)
• Khmer: ភាពត្រឹមត្រូវ (pʰiep trəm trəv)
• Portuguese: justiça (pt) f

• Romanian: justețe (ro) f
• Russian: справедливость (ru) f (spravedlivostʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: còir f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} drejtë f
• Bulgarian: (1, 2, 3) ^{(please verify)} справедливост (bg) f (spravedlivost), ^{(please verify)} правда (bg) f (pravda), ^{(please verify)} право (bg) n (pravo); (4) ^{(please verify)} правосъдие (bg) n (pravosǎdie)
• Catalan: ^{(please verify)} justícia f
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} justico (administration of law)
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} iustitia f
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} rettferdighet (no)

• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} drept (ro) f, m
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} justicia (es) f
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} rätt, ^{(please verify)} rättvisa
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} న్యాయం (te) (nyāyaṃ) (1, 2)

§See also

• fairness

§External links

• Justice on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

§Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: success · instance · sake · #907: justice · offer · promise · obliged

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§French

§Etymology

Borrowed from Latin iustitia, from iustus "just", from ius "right"

§Pronunciation

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§Noun

justice f (plural justices)

1. justice

§Derived terms

• juste
• justiticiable
• justiticier

§References

• etymology

§External links

• “justice” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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§Jèrriais

§Etymology

From Old French justise, justice, from Latin iūstitia (“righteousness, equity”), from iūstus (“just”), from iūs (“right”), from Proto-Indo-European *yewes-.

§Noun

justice f (plural justices)

1. justice

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§Old French

§Noun

justice f (oblique plural justices, nominative singular justice, nominative plural justices)

1. alternative form of justise