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English

Etymology

From Middle French juriste

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d????.?st/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d???.?st/

Noun

jurist (plural jurists)

1. (law) An expert of law or someone who researches jurisprudence.
2. (US, Canada, law) A judge.

Translations

Danish

Etymology

From Medieval Latin iurista, from i?s (“law”) +? -ista (“-ist”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jurist/, [ju??isd?]

Noun

jurist c (singular definite juristen, plural indefinite jurister)

1. lawyer
2. jurist

Inflection

Further reading

• jurist on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ju?rist

Noun

jurist m (plural juristen, diminutive juristje n)

1. lawyer, jurist

Indonesian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch jurist.

Noun

jurist

1. (law) legal expert

   Synonym: ahli hukum

Further reading

• “jurist” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Medieval Latin jurista

Noun

jurist m (definite singular juristen, indefinite plural jurister, definite plural juristene)

1. a lawyer

References

• “jurist” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Medieval Latin jurista

Noun

jurist m (definite singular juristen, indefinite plural juristar, definite plural juristane)

1. a lawyer

References

• “jurist” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French juriste, Medieval Latin jurista.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?rist/

Noun

jurist m (plural juri?ti, feminine equivalent jurist?)

1. jurist
2. (dated) a law student

Declension

Synonyms

• legist (dated)

Related terms

• juridic
• jurisdic?ie, jurisdic?iune
• jurisdic?ional
• jurispruden??

See also

• avocat
• judec?tor

References

• jurist in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Swedish

Etymology

juridik +? -ist

Noun

jurist c

1. a jurist, a legal expert, someone who specializes in law

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• lawer (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English lawier, lawyer, lawer, equivalent to law +? -yer.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l??j?(?)/, /?l??.?(?)/
• (US, Northern and Western) IPA^(key): /?l??.?/
• (US, Southern) IPA^(key): /?l?.j?/
• Rhymes: -??.?, -??.?(?), -???(?)
• Hyphenation: law?yer

Noun

lawyer (plural lawyers)

1. A professional person qualified (as by a law degree or bar exam) and authorized to practice law, i.e. represent parties in lawsuits or trials and give legal advice.

   • His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill; […].

   A lawyer's time and advice are his stock in trade. - aphorism often credited to Abraham Lincoln, but without attestation

2. (by extension) A legal layman who argues points of law.
3. (Britain, colloquial) The burbot.
4. (Britain, dialect, botany) The stem of a bramble.
5. Any of various plants. This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Synonyms

• advocate
• attorney
• counselor

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

lawyer (third-person singular simple present lawyers, present participle lawyering, simple past and past participle lawyered)

1. (informal, intransitive) To practice law.
2. (intransitive) To perform, or attempt to perform, the work of a lawyer.
3. (intransitive) To make legalistic arguments.
4. (informal, transitive) To barrage (a person) with questions in order to get them to admit something.

   You've been lawyered!

Related terms

• lawyer up

See also

• solicitor
• barrister

References

Anagrams

• Rawley, warely, yawler

Middle English

Noun

lawyer

1. Alternative form of lawier