justiça

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-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

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  • Rhymes: (most dialects) -isɐ, (Southern Brazil) -isa
  • Hyphenation: jus‧ti‧ça

Noun

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justiça f (plural justiças)

  1. justice
  2. (metonymically) court
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References

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  1. ^ Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa
  2. ^ “Notes on the Development of -kj-,-tj- in Spanish and Portuguese”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎[1], 2012 February 6 (last accessed), archived from the original on 7 February 2012
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