justiça

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese justiça, borrowed from Latin iūstitia (“justice”).[1][2] Cognate with Galician xustiza, Spanish justicia, Catalan justícia, Occitan justícia, French justice, Italian giustizia and Romanian justiție. See also justeza, possibly a doublet.

Pronunciation
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ʒuʃ.ˈti.sɐ/
  • Hyphenation: jus‧ti‧ça

Noun

justiça f (plural justiças)

  1. justice
  2. (metonymically) court

References
  1. Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa
  2. “Notes on the Development of -kj-,-tj- in Spanish and Portuguese”, in (Please provide the title of the work)‎, accessed 6 February 2012, archived from the original on 7 February 2012
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