statute
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English statut, from Old French statut, from Late Latin statutum (“a statute”), neuter singular of Latin statutus, past participle of statuō (“I set up, establish”).
Pronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈstatjuːt/, /ˈstat͡ʃuːt/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈstæt͡ʃuːt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editstatute (countable and uncountable, plural statutes)
- A written law or ordinance passed by a legislative body. [from ca. 1300s]
- A rule of an organization or institution. [from 1389]
- (archaic, biblical) A law or decree made by a sovereign, or by God.
- (law, historical) A (theoretical) type of statutory law specified as regulating a person or thing. [from 1791]
- Legal status of being subject to this.
- (historical) A statute fair. [from before 1600]
Coordinate terms
edit- (written law as laid down by the legislature): regulation (written law as laid down by a regulatory agency of a governmental executive body)
Derived terms
editTranslations
editwritten law as laid down by the legislature
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legislated rule of society which has been given the force of law
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References
edit- “statute, n.1”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- “statute, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Anagrams
editLatin
editParticiple
editstatūte
References
edit- “statute”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Romanian
editNoun
editstatute n
Serbo-Croatian
editNoun
editstatute (Cyrillic spelling статуте)
- inflection of statut:
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