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Etymology

PIE word
*tréyes

From Old French tribunal, from Latin tribūnal (“tribunal”), from tribus (“tribe”).

Pronunciation

Noun

tribunal (plural tribunals)

  1. (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.
  2. (Philippines, historical) A kind of village hall used to transact business, to quarter troops and travellers, and to confine prisoners.

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Catalan

Pronunciation

Noun

tribunal m (plural tribunals)

  1. tribunal

Further reading

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tribūnal (“tribunal”).

Pronunciation

Noun

tribunal m (plural tribunaux)

  1. tribunal
  2. (law) court, court of law
    Synonym: cour

Further reading

Ladin

Noun

tribunal m (plural tribunai)

  1. tribunal

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Neuter gender of supposed adjective *tribūnālis, from tribūnus (“tribune”), from tribus (“tribe”). Equivalently, tribūnus +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

Noun

tribūnal n (genitive tribūnālis); third declension

  1. a raised semicircular or square platform, on which the seats of magistrates were placed; tribunal, judgment seat, dais, camp platform
  2. cenotaph
  3. (metonymically) a court of law, tribunal; judgment
  4. (by extension) any platform used for purposes other than above
  5. (by extension) mound, dam, embankment
  6. (figuratively) height, greatness

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tribūnal tribūnālia
Genitive tribūnālis tribūnālium
Dative tribūnālī tribūnālibus
Accusative tribūnal tribūnālia
Ablative tribūnālī tribūnālibus
Vocative tribūnal tribūnālia

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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

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tribūnal.

Noun

tribunal oblique singular, m (oblique plural tribunaus or tribunax or tribunals, nominative singular tribunaus or tribunax or tribunals, nominative plural tribunal)

  1. tribunal; court

Adjective

tribunal m (oblique and nominative feminine singular tribunale)

  1. of or relating to a tribunal

Descendants

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

tribunal m (plural tribunaj)

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin tribūnal.

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: -al, -aw
  • Hyphenation: tri‧bu‧nal

Noun

tribunal m (plural tribunais)

  1. court
  2. tribunal

Further reading

  • “tribunal” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French tribunal or Latin tribunal.

Noun

tribunal n (plural tribunale)

  1. tribunal, courthouse

Declension

Declension of tribunal
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) tribunal tribunalul (niște) tribunale tribunalele
genitive/dative (unui) tribunal tribunalului (unor) tribunale tribunalelor
vocative tribunalule tribunalelor

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin tribūnal (“tribunal”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tribǔnaːl/
  • Hyphenation: tri‧bu‧nal

Noun

tribùnāl m (Cyrillic spelling трибу̀на̄л)

  1. tribunal

Declension

Declension of tribunal
singular plural
nominative tribùnāl tribunali
genitive tribunala tribunála
dative tribunalu tribunalima
accusative tribunal tribunale
vocative tribunale tribunali
locative tribunalu tribunalima
instrumental tribunalom tribunalima

References

  • “tribunal” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin tribūnal (“tribunal”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɾibuˈnal/
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: tri‧bu‧nal

Noun

tribunal m (plural tribunales)

  1. court
  2. tribunal

Hyponyms

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

Swedish

Noun

tribunal c

  1. tribunal
  2. (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

Declension

Declension of tribunal 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative tribunal tribunalen tribunaler tribunalerna
Genitive tribunals tribunalens tribunalers tribunalernas

Derived terms

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tribunal.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɾibuˈnal/,
  • Hyphenation: tri‧bu‧nal

Noun

tribunál (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜇᜒᜊᜓᜈᜎ᜔)

  1. tribunal; court
    Synonyms: korte, hukuman, husgado
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