justo

See also: Justo and justó

Latin

Adjective

jūstō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of jūstus

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• iusto (alternative spelling)

Etymology

From Latin iūstus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʒusto/

Noun

justo m (plural justos, feminine singular justa, feminine plural justas)

1. someone just, righteous
   • c. 1200: Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 2r.

     […] Quiçab. ha. L. iuſtos en eſta uilla e pues matar los as. E non parçiras allogar por los. L. iuſtos. Por fer eſta coſa uedado ſea ati. de matar el iuſto por el peccador. Nó ſe juez en toda la tierra q́ fẏzies eſte iudizio.

     “[…] Perhaps there are fifty righteous in this city and thus you would kill them. Will you not spare the place for the fifty righteous? To do such a thing is far from you; to kill the righteous because of the sinner. I know not of a judge on earth who would make such a judgment”.

Adjective

justo (feminine singular justa, masculine plural justos, feminine plural justas)

1. just, righteous
   • c. 1200: Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 14v.

     embio pharaon amoẏſen ¬ aaron. E dixo les peq́ eſta uez el criador es iuſto. ¬ ẏo e mio pueblo ſomos peccadores. […]

     Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron and said, “This time I have sinned against you, and the Creator is just, and my people and I are sinners. […]”

Related terms

• justicia
• justificar

Descendants

• Spanish: justo

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese justo, from Latin iūstus (“just, righteous”), jūstus, from Proto-Italic *jowestos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yew-.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʒus.tu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʒus.tu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈʒuʃ.tu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʒus.to/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʒuʃ.tu/

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ustu, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -uʃtu
• Hyphenation: jus‧to

Adjective

justo (feminine justa, masculine plural justos, feminine plural justas, comparable, comparative mais justo, superlative o mais justo or justíssimo)

1. free from sin and guilt; righteous
2. morally justified; righteous
3. fair, just

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: justu

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish justo, from Latin iūstus, jūstus, from Proto-Italic *jowestos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yew-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxusto/ [ˈxus.t̪o]

• Audio (Colombia)

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• Rhymes: -usto
• Syllabification: jus‧to

Adverb

justo

1. right, just
2. exactly
3. tightly

Derived terms

• justo a tiempo

 

Adjective

justo (feminine justa, masculine plural justos, feminine plural justas, superlative justísimo)

1. just, fair

Derived terms

• bromas las justas
• comercio justo
• en su justa medida
• pagar justos por pecadores

 

Verb

justo

1. first-person singular present indicative of justar

Further reading

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

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin iūstus, jūstus (compare Italian giusto).

Adjective

justo (feminine singular justa, masculine plural justi, feminine plural juste)

1. right
2. just, fair