judicial

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin iūdiciālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒuˈdɪʃəl/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪʃəl
• Hyphenation: ju‧di‧cial

Adjective

judicial (comparative more judicial, superlative most judicial)

1. Of or relating to the administration of justice.
2. Of or relating to the court system or the judicial branch of government.
   • 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

     It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.

3. (Ireland, historical) specified by a civil bill court under the terms of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881

   'judicial rent, judicial lease

4. Of or relating to judgeship or the judiciary, the collective body of judges.
5. Of or relating to sound judgment; judicious (but see Usage notes).

Usage notes

Many editors maintain a differentiation between judicial and judicious and believe that writers should not confuse judicial (having to do with justice and judiciary systems) with judicious (showing good judgment), so for example judicious use of X (i.e. wisely chosen) is not interchangeable with judicial use of X (i.e. by the courts). Meanwhile, the word juridical is not well differentiated in meaning from judicial, the two having substantial semantic overlap.

Synonyms

• justiciary

Derived terms

• extrajudicial
• judicial activism
• judicial astrology
• judicial day
• judicial factor
• judicial notice
• judicial officer
• judicial police
• judicial relief
• judicial remedy
• judicial restraint
• judicial review
• judicial separation
• judicial temperament

 

Related terms

• judiciary
• judge

Translations

of or relating to a court of law

• Arabic: قَضَائِي (qaḍāʔī)
• Armenian: դատական (hy) (datakan)
• Asturian: xudicial
• Belarusian: судо́вы (sudóvy)
• Bulgarian: съде́бен (sǎdében)
• Catalan: judicial (ca), judiciari
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 司法 (zh) (sīfǎ)

• Czech: soudní (cs) c
• Danish: retslig, juridisk
• Dutch: gerechtelijk (nl)
• Esperanto: jurisdikcia
• Finnish: oikeudellinen (fi)
• French: judiciaire (fr)
• Galician: xudicial
• Georgian: სასამართლო (sasamartlo)
• German: gerichtlich (de), Justiz- (de)
• Greek: δικαστικός (el) (dikastikós)
• Hungarian: bírósági (hu), igazságügyi (hu), bírói (hu), bűnügyi (hu), jog- (hu)
• Ido: judiciala (io)
• Indonesian: yudisial (id)
• Irish: breithiúnach
• Italian: giudiziale (it), giudiziario (it)
• Japanese: 司法の (ja) (しほうの, shihō no)
• Kabuverdianu: judisial
• Korean: 사법의 (ko) (sabeobui)
• Latin: iūdiciālis
• Macedonian: судски m (sudski)
• Malay: kehakiman​
• Occitan: judiciari (oc)
• Old English: dōmlīċ
• Polish: sądowy (pl)
• Portuguese: judiciário (pt)
• Romanian: judiciar (ro)
• Russian: суде́бный (ru) (sudébnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: dligheil
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: су̀дскӣ

  Roman: sùdskī (sh)

• Slovak: súdny
• Slovene: sodni
• Spanish: judicial (es)
• Swedish: rättslig (sv), juridisk (sv), judiciell (sv)
• Turkish: adli (tr)
• Ukrainian: судови́й (sudovýj)
• Vietnamese: tư pháp (vi)

Noun

judicial (uncountable)

1. That branch of government which is responsible for maintaining the courts of law and for the administration of justice.

   Synonym: judiciary

Translations

branch of government responsible for administration of justice

• Finnish: oikeuslaitos (fi)
• Georgian: სასამართლო (sasamartlo), სასამართლო ხელისუფლება (sasamartlo xelisupleba)
• Macedonian: судски (sudski)
• Navajo: hwoldii biłhazʼą́ą́jí

See also

• juridicial

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin iūdiciālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ʒu.ði.siˈal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [d͡ʒu.ði.siˈal]

Adjective

judicial m or f (masculine and feminine plural judicials)

1. judicial

Derived terms

• extrajudicial
• judicialment

Related terms

• judici
• jutge
• jutjar

Further reading

• “judicial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “judicial”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “judicial” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “judicial” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin iūdiciālis.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʒu.d͡ʒi.siˈaw/ [ʒu.d͡ʒi.sɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /ʒu.d͡ʒiˈsjaw/ [ʒu.d͡ʒiˈsjaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʒu.diˈsjal/ [ʒu.ðiˈsjaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʒu.diˈsjal/ [ʒu.ðiˈsjaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʒu.diˈsja.li/ [ʒu.ðiˈsja.li]

Adjective

judicial m or f (plural judiciais)

1. judicial

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:judicial.

Derived terms

• extrajudicial
• judicialmente

Related terms

• judiciário
• juízo
• juiz
• julgar

Further reading

• “judicial” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “judicial” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin iūdiciālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /xudiˈθjal/ [xu.ð̞iˈθjal]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /xudiˈsjal/ [xu.ð̞iˈsjal]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: ju‧di‧cial

Adjective

judicial m or f (masculine and feminine plural judiciales)

1. judicial

Derived terms

• decreto judicial
• extrajudicial
• judicialmente
• policía judicial
• tutela judicial
• tutela judicial efectiva

 

Related terms

• juez
• juicio
• juzgar

 

Further reading

• “judicial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014