tribunal
English
Etymology
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From Old French tribunal, from Latin tribūnal (“tribunal”), from tribus (“tribe”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /tɹaɪˈbjunəl/, /tɹəˈbjunəl/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tɹaɪˈbjuːnəl/, /tɹɪˈbjuːnəl/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -uːnəl
Noun
tribunal (plural tribunals)
- (law) An assembly including one or more judges to conduct judicial business; a court of law.
- 1611, Thomas Coryate, Coryat's Crudities hastily gobbled up in Five Months Travels in France, Italy, &c:
- Having now so amply declared unto thee most of the principal things of this thrice-renowned and illustrious city, I will briefly by way of an epitome mention most of the other particulars thereof, and so finally shut up this narration: there are reported to be in Venice and the circumjacent islands two hundred churches in which are one hundred forth-three pairs of organs, fifty-four monasteries, twenty-six nunneries, fifty-six tribunals or places of judgment, seventeen hospitals, six companies or fraternities, whereof I have before spoken; one hundred and sixty-five marble statues of worthy personages, partly equestrial, partly pedestrial, which are erected in sundry places of the city, to the honour of those that either at home have prudently administered the commonweal, or abroad valiantly fought for the same.
- (Philippines, historical) A kind of village hall used to transact business, to quarter troops and travellers, and to confine prisoners.
Translations
assembly including one or more judges to conduct judicial business
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Catalan
Further reading
- “tribunal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʁi.by.nal/
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Further reading
- “tribunal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Alternative forms
- tribūnāle (rare)
Etymology
Neuter gender of supposed adjective *tribūnālis, from tribūnus (“tribune”), from tribus (“tribe”). Equivalently, tribūnus + -al.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /triˈbuː.nal/, [t̪rɪˈbuːnäɫ̪]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /triˈbu.nal/, [t̪riˈbuːnäl]
Noun
tribūnal n (genitive tribūnālis); third declension
- a raised semicircular or square platform, on which the seats of magistrates were placed; tribunal, judgment seat, dais, camp platform
- 27 - 25 BC . Ab Urbe Condita, Titus Livius, II, Chapter XII.
- Ubi eo venit, in confertissima turba prope regium tribunal constitit.
- When he came there, he was standing in the crammed crowd, near the king's tribunal.
- 27 - 25 BC . Ab Urbe Condita, Titus Livius, II, Chapter XII.
- cenotaph
- (metonymically) a court of law, tribunal; judgment
- (by extension) any platform used for purposes other than above
- (by extension) mound, dam, embankment
- (figuratively) height, greatness
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “tribunal”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tribunal”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tribunal in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- tribunal in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “tribunal”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “tribunal”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Old French
Noun
tribunal oblique singular, m (oblique plural tribunaus or tribunax or tribunals, nominative singular tribunaus or tribunax or tribunals, nominative plural tribunal)
Adjective
tribunal m (oblique and nominative feminine singular tribunale)
- of or relating to a tribunal
Piedmontese
Alternative forms
- tribünal
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tribyˈnal/
Noun
tribunal m (plural tribunaj)
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Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /tɾi.buˈnaw/ [tɾi.buˈnaʊ̯]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /tɾi.buˈnal/ [tɾi.βuˈnaɫ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /tɾi.buˈna.li/ [tɾi.βuˈna.li]
- Rhymes: -al, -aw
- Hyphenation: tri‧bu‧nal
Further reading
- “tribunal” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
Romanian
Declension
Declension of tribunal
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tribǔnaːl/
- Hyphenation: tri‧bu‧nal
Declension
References
- “tribunal” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɾibuˈnal/ [t̪ɾi.β̞uˈnal]
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: tri‧bu‧nal
Hyponyms
Further reading
- “tribunal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
Noun
tribunal c
- tribunal
- (European Union) the General Court
- I stadgan får det föreskrivas att tribunalen skall biträdas av generaladvokater.
- The Statute may provide for the General Court to be assisted by Advocates-General.
- en ledamot av tribunalen
- a member of the General Court
- I stadgan får det föreskrivas att tribunalen skall biträdas av generaladvokater.
Declension
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | tribunal | tribunalen | tribunaler | tribunalerna |
Genitive | tribunals | tribunalens | tribunalers | tribunalernas |
Derived terms
- krigsförbrytartribunal
- militärtribunal
- revolutionstribunal
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɾibuˈnal/, [tɾɪ.bʊˈnal]
- Hyphenation: tri‧bu‧nal
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