tribunal

English Online Dictionary. What means tribunal‎? What does tribunal mean?

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /tɹaɪˈbjunəl/, /tɹəˈbjunəl/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɹaɪˈbjuːnəl/, /tɹɪˈbjuːnəl/
• Rhymes: -uːnəl

Noun

tribunal (plural tribunals)

1. (law) An assembly including one or more judges to conduct judicial business; a court of law.
2. (Philippines, historical) A kind of village hall used to transact business, to quarter troops and travellers, and to confine prisoners.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• anti-blur, turbinal, untribal

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [tɾi.βuˈnal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [tɾi.buˈnal]

Noun

tribunal m (plural tribunals)

1. tribunal

Further reading

• “tribunal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tribūnal (“tribunal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁi.by.nal/

Noun

tribunal m (plural tribunaux)

1. tribunal
2. (law) court, court of law

   Synonym: cour

Further reading

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

Ladin

Noun

tribunal m (plural tribunai)

1. tribunal

Latin

Alternative forms

• tribūnāle (rare)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /triˈbuː.nal/, [t̪rɪˈbuːnäɫ̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /triˈbu.nal/, [t̪riˈbuːnäl]

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
   • 27 - 25 BC . Ab Urbe Condita, Titus Livius, II, Chapter XII.

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).

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

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

• → English: tribunal
• French: tribunal

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• tribünal

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tribyˈnal/

Noun

tribunal m (plural tribunaj)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {}.

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

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin tribūnal (“tribunal”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tribùnāl m (Cyrillic spelling трибу̀на̄л)

1. tribunal

Declension

References

• “tribunal”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin tribūnal (“tribunal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɾibuˈnal/ [t̪ɾi.β̞uˈnal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: tri‧bu‧nal

Noun

tribunal m (plural tribunales)

1. court
2. tribunal

Hyponyms

Derived terms

See also

• juzgado
• corte
• juicio

Further reading

• “tribunal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

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

Derived terms

• krigsförbrytartribunal
• militärtribunal
• revolutionstribunal

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tribunal.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /tɾibuˈnal/ [t̪ɾɪ.bʊˈn̪al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: tri‧bu‧nal

Noun

tribunál (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜇᜒᜊᜓᜈᜎ᜔)

1. tribunal; court

   Synonyms: korte, hukuman, husgado