justise
Old French
noun
Definitions
- revenge; retribution
- justice legal or moral
- fairness; equality
- judge
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin iūstitia (justice, equity, righteousness).
Origin
Latin
iūstitia
Gloss
justice, equity, righteousness
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- justice English
- iniustitia Latin
- iūstitia Latin
- justitiarius Latin
- jūstitia, iustitia, iūstitia Latin
- jūstitia, iūstitia Latin
- giustezza Italian
- giustizia Italian
- justice French
- justicier French
- justicia Spanish, Castilian
- *h₂yew- Proto-Indo-European
- justeza Portuguese
- justice Middle English
- قسط Arabic
- justícia Catalan, Valencian
- justiție Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- justice Norman
- justicier Middle French
- justiça Old Portuguese
- *jowos Proto-Italic
- xusticia Asturian
- justizie Friulian
- justicia Old Occitan
- justise xno
- קִיסְטָא Aramaic
- giustizia Ladin