Latin edit

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Etymology edit

From iūdicō (I judge, decide) +‎ -ium (nominal suffix). Compare iūdex (a judge).

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Noun edit

iūdicium n (genitive iūdiciī or iūdicī); second declension

  1. judgment, decision
  2. opinion
  3. trial
  4. wish, desire

Declension edit

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative iūdicium iūdicia
Genitive iūdiciī
iūdicī1
iūdiciōrum
Dative iūdiciō iūdiciīs
Accusative iūdicium iūdicia
Ablative iūdiciō iūdiciīs
Vocative iūdicium iūdicia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

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References edit

  • iudicium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • iudicium 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)
  • iudicium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to act in accordance with one's convictions: suo iudicio uti
    • to criticise: iudicium facere
    • to be a man of taste: sensum, iudicium habere
    • good taste; delicate perception: iudicium subtile, elegans, exquisitum, intellegens
    • to cultivate one's powers of criticism: iudicium acuere
    • on principle: ratione; animi quodam iudicio
    • to have no principles: omnia temere agere, nullo iudicio uti
    • to give the state a constitution: civitati leges, iudicia, iura describere
    • lawlessness; anarchy: iudicia nulla
    • to summon some one before the court: in ius, in iudicium vocare aliquem
    • to appear in court: in iudicium venire, in iudicio adesse
    • to have charge of the administration of justice: iudicia administrare
    • to administer justice; to judge (used of criminal cases before the praetor): iudicium exercere (vid. sect. V. 7, note The first...)
    • to be president of a court: iudicio praeesse
    • judicial organisation: ratio iudiciorum
    • to win a case: causā or iudicio vincere
    • to rescind a decision: iudicium rescindere
  • iudicium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers