justicia
Latin
[edit]Noun
[edit]jūsticia f (genitive jūsticiae); first declension
- alternative spelling of iustitia
Old Occitan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin iūstitia (“justice”).
Noun
[edit]justicia f (nominative singular justicia)
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Etymology tree
Learned borrowing from Latin iūstitia (“justice”).[1][2] Compare also justeza.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /xusˈtiθja/ [xusˈt̪i.θja] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
- IPA(key): /xusˈtisja/ [xusˈt̪i.sja] (Latin America, Philippines)
Audio (Venezuela): (file) - Rhymes: -iθja (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
- Rhymes: -isja (Latin America, Philippines)
- Syllabification: jus‧ti‧cia
Noun
[edit]justicia f (plural justicias)
- justice
- righteousness
- the law
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Tagalog: hustisya
References
[edit]- ^ Real Academia Española
- ^ “Notes on the Development of -kj-,-tj- in Spanish and Portuguese”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], 6 February 2012 (last accessed), archived from the original on 7 February 2012
Further reading
[edit]- “justicia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
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