justicia
Latin edit
Noun edit
jūsticia f (genitive jūsticiae); first declension
- Alternative spelling of iustitia
Old Occitan edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin iūstitia (“justice”).
Noun edit
justicia f (nominative singular justicia)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin iūstitia (“justice”).[1][2] Compare also justeza.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /xusˈtiθja/ [xusˈt̪i.θja]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /xusˈtisja/ [xusˈt̪i.sja]
Audio (Venezuela): (file) - (Spain) Rhymes: -iθja
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -isja
- Syllabification: jus‧ti‧cia
Noun edit
justicia f (plural justicias)
- justice
- righteousness
- the law
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Tagalog: hustisya
References edit
- ^ Real Academia Española
- ^ “Notes on the Development of -kj-,-tj- in Spanish and Portuguese”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], 2012 February 6 (last accessed), archived from the original on 7 February 2012
Further reading edit
- “justicia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014