judgment
English
/ˈdʒʌdʒ.mənt/
noun
Definitions
- The act of judging.
- The power or faculty of performing such operations; especially, when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely
- The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
- (legal) The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge.
- (theology) The final award; the last sentence.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English juggement borrowed from Old French jugement derived from Latin iūdicāmentum, iūdicō (I judge, pass judgement upon, pass judgement, judge, decide, conclude, determine).
Origin
Latin
iūdicō
Gloss
I judge, pass judgement upon, pass judgement, judge, decide, conclude, determine
Concept
Semantic Field
Law
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- forejudgment English
- hyperjudgmental English
- judgmental English
- judgmentalism English
- judgmentally English
- judgmentless English
- misjudgment English
- nonjudgment English
- nonjudgmental English
- prejudgment English
- snap English
- snap judgment English
- unjudgmental English
- abiudico Latin
- adiudico Latin
- deiudico Latin
- diiudico Latin
- iudicabilis Latin
- iudicatio Latin
- iudicator Latin
- iudicator, iūdicator, jūdicator Latin
- iudicatorius Latin
- iudicium Latin
- iūdicāmentum Latin
- iūdicāmentum, jūdicāmentum Latin
- iūdicātōrius Latin
- iūdicō Latin
- jūdicāmentum, iūdicāmentum, iudicamentum Latin
- jūdicātōrem Latin
- praeiudico Latin
- jugement French
- *h₂yew- Proto-Indo-European
- juggement Middle English
- jugement Old French
- juger Old French
- jugier Old French
- jugement Norman