jurat

From Medieval Latin iūrātus (“sworn [man]”) or iūrātum (“[that which is] sworn”), from Latin iūrō (“I swear an oath”). As a medieval office, via French jurat, via Occitan juré.

• (UK) (written statement): IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒʊəɹæt/
  (other senses): IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒʊəɹæt/, /ˈʒʊəɹæ/
• (US) (all senses): IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒʊˌɹæt/

jurat (plural jurats)

1. (law) A sworn statement concerning where, when, and before whom an oath has been made.

   The affidavit's jurat reads "Sworn this __ day of ________, 20__, before me" and is followed by the notary's signature. Looks like she forgot to fill it in.

2. (law, obsolete) A sworn person, particularly:
   1. (law, historical) A medieval informant: a man sworn to provide information about crimes committed in his neighborhood.
   2. (law, obsolete) A juror.
   3. A councilman or alderman of the Cinque Ports.
   4. A magistrate of Channel Islands, serving for life, who forms part of the islands' royal court.

      Guernsey and Jersey have twelve jurats each, and Alderney six.

      • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 179:

        The Jurat came of a good old Guernsey family which, in the Middle Ages, always had the sense to fight on the side paid best [...].

   5. (historical) A municipal officer of Bordeaux and certain other French towns.
   6. (historical, in French contexts) A member of any association sworn to do nothing against its internal rules.

• (informant): See Thesaurus:informant
• (juror): See juror
• (official of the Cinque Ports): alderman

• (French official): échevin, consul, capitoul

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "jurat, n.¹" and "jurat, n.²". Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1901.

Inherited from Old Catalan jurat, from Latin iūrātus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ʒuˈɾat]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [d͡ʒuˈɾat]
• Rhymes: -at

jurat m (plural jurats)

1. jury
2. juror
3. panel of judges
4. judge

jurat (feminine jurada, masculine plural jurats, feminine plural jurades)

1. past participle of jurar

• “jurat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “jurat”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “jurat” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “jurat” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Old French jurat, borrowed from Old Occitan jurat, from Latin iūrātus. Doublet of juré, which was inherited.

• IPA^(key): /ʒy.ʁa/

jurat m (plural jurats)

1. a sworn man, particularly:
   1. (historical) a municipal officer of Bordeaux and certain other French towns prior to the French Revolution.
   2. (historical) a medieval court officer.
   3. (historical) a member of any association sworn to do nothing against its internal rules.

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

jūrat

1. third-person singular present active indicative of jūrō

Past participle of jura. Corresponds to Latin iūrātus. Noun sense partly based on French juré.

• IPA^(key): /ʒuˈrat/

jurat (past participle of jura)

1. vowed, swore
2. past participle of jura

jurat m (plural jurați)

1. juror, member of a jury

• juriu

• jurat in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)