tribunal

See also: Tribunal and tribunál

English

Etymology

PIE word
*tréyes

From Old French tribunal, from Latin tribūnal (“tribunal”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /tɹaɪˈbjunəl/, /tɹəˈbjunəl/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɹaɪˈbjuːnəl/, /tɹɪˈbjuːnəl/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -uːnəl

Noun

tribunal (plural tribunals)

1. (law) An assembly including one or more judges to conduct judicial business; a court of law.
2. (Philippines, historical) A kind of village hall used to transact business, to quarter troops and travellers, and to confine prisoners.

Derived terms

• drumhead tribunal
• industrial tribunal
• military tribunal

Translations

assembly including one or more judges to conduct judicial business

• Albanian: gjykatë (sq) f
• Arabic: مَحْكَمَة‎ (ar) f (maḥkama)
• Armenian: դատարան (hy) (dataran), տրիբունալ (hy) (tribunal)
• Azerbaijani: məhkəmə (az), tribunal (az)
• Belarusian: трыбуна́л m (trybunál), суд m (sud)
• Bengali: আদালত (bn) (adalot), ট্রাইব্যুনাল (ṭraibyunal)
• Bulgarian: трибуна́л (bg) m (tribunál), съд (bg) m (sǎd)
• Burmese: တရားရုံး (my) (ta.ra:rum:)
• Catalan: tribunal (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 仲裁庭 (zhòngcáitíng), 法庭 (zh) (fǎtíng)

• Czech: tribunál m, soud (cs) m
• Danish: tribunal n
• Dutch: tribunaal (nl) n
• Egyptian: (ḏꜣḏꜣt f)
• Esperanto: tribunalo
• Estonian: tribunal (et)
• Finnish: tribunaali (fi)
• French: tribunal (fr) m
• Georgian: ტრიბუნალი (ṭribunali)
• German: Tribunal (de) n, Gerichtshof (de) m, Gericht (de) n
• Gothic: 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍉𐌻𐍃 m (stauastōls)
• Greek: δικαστήριο (el) n (dikastírio)
• Hebrew: בֵּית דִּין‎ (he) m (bet dín)
• Hindi: अधिकरण (hi) m (adhikraṇ), अदालत (hi) f (adālat), न्यायालय (hi) m (nyāyālay), ट्रिब्यूनल m (ṭribyūnal)
• Hungarian: bíróság (hu)
• Indonesian: tribunal (id), mahkamah (id)
• Irish: binse breithimh m
• Italian: tribunale (it) m
• Japanese: 法廷 (ja) (ほうてい, hōtei)
• Kazakh: трибунал (tribunal)
• Khmer: តុលាការ (km) (tolaakaa)
• Korean: 법정(法廷) (ko) (beopjeong)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: dadgeh (ku) f, mehkeme (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: трибунал (ky) (tribunal)
• Lao: ສານ (lo) (sān)
• Latvian: tribunāls m
• Lithuanian: tribunolas m
• Malay: tribunal, mahkamah (ms)
• Maori: taraipiunara
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tribunal n

• Persian: محکمه‎ (fa) (mahkame), دیوان‎ (fa) (divân)
• Polish: trybunał (pl) m, sąd (pl) m
• Portuguese: tribunal (pt) m
• Romanian: tribunal (ro) n
• Russian: трибуна́л (ru) m (tribunál), суд (ru) m (sud)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: трибу̀на̄л m

  Roman: tribùnāl (sh) m

• Slovak: tribunál m, súd m
• Slovene: razsodišče n, sodišče n, tribunal m (literary)
• Spanish: tribunal (es) m
• Swedish: tribunal (sv) c
• Tajik: трибунал (tribunal), маҳкама (mahkama), суд (sud), девон (devon)
• Thai: คณะตุลาการ (ká-ná-dtù-laa-gaan), ศาล (th) (sǎan)
• Turkish: mahkeme (tr)
• Ukrainian: трибуна́л m (trybunál), суд (uk) m (sud)
• Urdu: ٹِریبُونَل‎ m (ṭribyūnal), عَدالَت‎ f ('adālat)
• Uzbek: tribunal (uz)
• Vietnamese: toà án (vi)

Anagrams

• anti-blur, turbinal

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /tɾi.buˈnal/

Noun

tribunal m (plural tribunals)

1. tribunal

Further reading

• “tribunal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tribūnal (“tribunal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁi.by.nal/

• audio

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Noun

tribunal m (plural tribunaux)

1. tribunal
2. (law) court, court of law

   Synonym: cour

Further reading

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

Ladin

Noun

tribunal m (plural tribunai)

1. tribunal

Latin

Alternative forms

• tribūnāle

Etymology

Neuter gender of supposed adjective *tribūnālis, from tribūnus (“tribune”), from tribus (“tribe”). Equivalently, tribūnus +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /triˈbuː.nal/, [t̪rɪˈbuːnäɫ̪]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /triˈbu.nal/, [t̪riˈbuːnäl]

Noun

tribūnal n (genitive tribūnālis); third declension

1. a raised semicircular or square platform, on which the seats of magistrates were placed; tribunal, judgment seat, dais, camp platform
   • 27 - 25 BC . Ab Urbe Condita, Titus Livius, II, Chapter XII.

     Ubi eo venit, in confertissima turba prope regium tribunal constitit.

     When he came there, he was standing in the crammed crowd, near the king's tribunal.

2. cenotaph
3. (metonymically) a court of law, tribunal; judgment
4. (by extension) any platform used for purposes other than above
5. (by extension) mound, dam, embankment
6. (figuratively) height, greatness

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tribūnal	tribūnālia
Genitive	tribūnālis	tribūnālium
Dative	tribūnālī	tribūnālibus
Accusative	tribūnal	tribūnālia
Ablative	tribūnālī	tribūnālibus
Vocative	tribūnal	tribūnālia

Related terms

• tribuārius
• tribūlis
• tribūnātus
• tribūnīcius
• tribūnus
• tribuō
• tribus
• tribūtārius
• tribūtim
• tribūtiō
• tribūtor
• tribūtōrius
• tribūtum
• tribūtus

Descendants

• Catalan: tribunal
• English: tribunal
• French: tribunal
• Italian: tribunale
• Portuguese: tribunal
• Romanian: tribunal
• Russian: трибуна́л (tribunál)
• Serbo-Croatian: tribunal
• Sicilian: tribbunali
• Spanish: tribunal

References

• “tribunal”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tribunal”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tribunal 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)
• tribunal in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “tribunal”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “tribunal”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tribūnal.

Noun

tribunal m (oblique plural tribunaus or tribunax or tribunals, nominative singular tribunaus or tribunax or tribunals, nominative plural tribunal)

1. tribunal; court

Adjective

tribunal m (oblique and nominative feminine singular tribunale)

1. of or relating to a tribunal

Descendants

• → English: tribunal
• French: tribunal

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• tribünal

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tribyˈnal/

Noun

tribunal m (plural tribunaj)

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin tribūnal.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /tɾi.buˈnaw/ [tɾi.buˈnaʊ̯]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɾi.buˈnal/ [tɾi.βuˈnaɫ]

• Rhymes: -al, -aw
• Hyphenation: tri‧bu‧nal

Noun

tribunal m (plural tribunais)

1. court
2. tribunal

Further reading

• “tribunal” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Romanian

Etymology

From French tribunal or Latin tribunal.

Noun

tribunal n (plural tribunale)

1. tribunal, courthouse

Declension

Declension of tribunal

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) tribunal	tribunalul	(niște) tribunale	tribunalele
genitive/dative	(unui) tribunal	tribunalului	(unor) tribunale	tribunalelor
vocative	tribunalule		tribunalelor

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin tribūnal (“tribunal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tribǔnaːl/
• Hyphenation: tri‧bu‧nal

Noun

tribùnāl m (Cyrillic spelling трибу̀на̄л)

1. tribunal

Declension

Declension of tribunal

	singular	plural
nominative	tribùnāl	tribunali
genitive	tribunala	tribunála
dative	tribunalu	tribunalima
accusative	tribunal	tribunale
vocative	tribunale	tribunali
locative	tribunalu	tribunalima
instrumental	tribunalom	tribunalima

References

• “tribunal” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin tribūnal (“tribunal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɾibuˈnal/ [t̪ɾi.β̞uˈnal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: tri‧bu‧nal

Noun

tribunal m (plural tribunales)

1. court
2. tribunal

Hyponyms

• tribunal civil
• tribunal constitucional
• tribunal de justicia
• tribunal militar
• Tribunal Prostitucional
• tribunal testamentario

 

Derived terms

• sala de tribunales

 

See also

• juzgado
• corte
• juicio

Further reading

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

Swedish

Noun

tribunal c

1. tribunal
2. (European Union) the General Court

   I stadgan får det föreskrivas att tribunalen skall biträdas av generaladvokater.

   The Statute may provide for the General Court to be assisted by Advocates-General.

   en ledamot av tribunalen

   a member of the General Court

Declension

Declension of tribunal
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	tribunal	tribunalen	tribunaler	tribunalerna
Genitive	tribunals	tribunalens	tribunalers	tribunalernas

Derived terms

• krigsförbrytartribunal
• militärtribunal
• revolutionstribunal

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tribunal.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: tri‧bu‧nal
• IPA^(key): /tɾibuˈnal/, [tɾɪ.bʊˈnal]

Noun

tribunál

1. tribunal; court

   Synonyms: korte, hukuman, husgado