justicier

From justice +‎ -ier.

• IPA^(key): /ʒys.ti.sje/

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justicier m (plural justiciers, feminine justicière)

1. a justicer (an upholder of the law)
2. a justice (a judge)
3. (historical) a justiciar or justiciary (a high-ranking medieval judge)

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

• justiser
• justisier

justice +‎ -ier, or from an unattested Latin *iustitiō.

justicier

1. to judge; to apply justice; to serve justice
   • 12^th Century, Unknown, Raoul de Cambrai:

     Ains q'il soit vespres t'arai ci justicié

     I will service justice on you before it's evening

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -ier, with a palatal stem. These verbs are conjugated mostly like verbs in -er, but there is an extra i before the e of some endings. The forms that would normally end in *-c, *-cs, *-ct are modified to z, z, zt. In addition, c becomes ç before an a, o or u to keep the /ts/ sound intact. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• “justicier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (justicier)