jugé

See also: juge

French

Etymology

Past particle of juger.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒy.ʒe/

• Audio:

  (file)

Adjective

jugé (feminine jugée, masculine plural jugés, feminine plural jugées)

1. judged (that was judged by the courts)
2. (derogatory) judged (describes a man of whom one knows the lack of merit, the lack of honesty)

Derived terms

• au jugé (without seeing the animal at which one shoots)
• bien-jugé
• bien jugé, mal appelé (formula used in judgments when a senior judge upholds the sentence of a subordinate judge)
• chose jugé (point of dispute that has been definitively judged by the courts)
• mal-jugé
• mal jugé, bien appelé (formula used in judgments when a senior judge overrules the sentence of a subordinate judge)

Noun

jugé m (plural jugés)

1. judgment
   • 1948 January 1, Raymond Queneau, Saint-Glinglin [Saint Glinglin], Paris: Éditions Gallimard:

     Mais on avait déjà vu ça l’année précédente et la collection de Rosquilly était bien plus complète, au jugé des amateurs.

     But one had already seen it the previous year and the Rosquilly collection was much more complete, in the judgement of amateurs.

Participle

jugé (feminine jugée, masculine plural jugés, feminine plural jugées)

1. past participle of juger
   • 2022 November 18, 20 minutes, Paris, Île-de-France: Schibsted; Ouest-France Group, page 4:

     Il était jugé, jeudi, au tribunal correctionnel de Cahors (Lot), pour avoir blessé mortellement Morgan Keane, un jeune homme de 25 ans, sur son terrain.

     He was judged on Thursday at the Cahors Criminal Court (Lot), for fatally wounding Morgan Keane, a 25-year-old young man, on his land.

Further reading

• “jugé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.