juste

justa +‎ -e

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuste/

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juste

1. justly, fairly, righteously

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.

• IPA^(key): /ʒyst/

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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.

• justice

juste m (plural justes)

1. a righteous person

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

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.

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

• “juste”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• jutes, jutés
• sujet
• téjus

See the adjective just.

juste

1. just
2. rightly, exactly, correctly

jūste

1. vocative masculine singular of jūstus

• “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.

• joust

Borrowed from Old French juste.

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒust(ə)/

juste

1. just

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

• “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.

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

juste m or f

1. (Jersey) accurate, exact

• justément (“accurately, exactly”)

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juste

1. exactly, precisely, right

• justa

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

juste

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

From French juste.

juste (comparative justare, superlative justast)

1. synonym of schysst

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.

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

juste f

1. feminine plural of justo