different between oath vs jurat

English

Etymology

From Middle English ooth, oth, ath, from Old English ?þ (“oath”), from Proto-Germanic *aiþaz (“oath”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?óytos (“oath”). Cognate with Scots aith, athe (“oath”), North Frisian ith, iss (“oath”), West Frisian eed (“oath”), Dutch eed (“oath”), German Eid (“oath”), Swedish ed (“oath”), Icelandic eið (“oath”), Latin ?tor (“use, employ, avail”), Old Irish óeth (“oath”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?o??/
• Rhymes: -???

Noun

oath (plural oaths)

1. A solemn pledge or promise that invokes a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise.
   • 2007, George Simmons Roth, Battle in Outer Space (?ISBN):

     But all of us took an oath to do our duty when we joined the Space Force, and I fully expect everyone to willingly keep their word. But you took no oath, and have no obligation.

   • 2011, Mark Leyne, "The Tetherballs of Bougainville: A Novel

     There are […] brought all the way from Bougainville to present their birth certificates and testify in this courtroom, under oath, as to their given names.

2. A statement or promise which is strengthened (affirmed) by such a pledge.

3. A light, irreverent or insulting appeal to a deity or other entity.
4. A curse, a curse word.
   • 1981, Bernard Asbell, The Senate Nobody Knows:

     The farther from the Senator's office, the darker and older the furniture, the freer fly four-letter oaths, the higher the heaps of unfiled and unattended papers culminating in a frenzy of pulp in the press section […]

Synonyms

• pledge, vow, avowal

Derived terms

Related terms

• bloody oath (Australian slang)
• fucking oath (Australian slang)

Translations

Verb

oath (third-person singular simple present oaths, present participle oathing, simple past and past participle oathed)

1. (archaic) To pledge.

Translations

Further reading

• oath on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• HATO, Thao, taho

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin i?r?tus (“sworn [man]”) or i?r?tum (“[that which is] sworn”), from Latin i?r? (“I swear an oath”). As a medieval office, via French jurat, via Occitan juré.

Pronunciation

• (UK) (written statement): IPA^(key): /?d????æt/
  (other senses): IPA^(key): /?d????æt/, /?????æ/
• (US) (all senses): IPA^(key): /?d????æt/

Noun

jurat (plural jurats)

1. (law) A sworn statement concerning where, when, and before whom an oath has been made.

   The affidavit's jurat reads "Sworn this __ day of ________, 20__, before me" and is followed by the notary's signature. Looks like she forgot to fill it in.

2. (law, obsolete) A sworn person, particularly:
   1. (law, historical) A medieval informant: a man sworn to provide information about crimes committed in his neighborhood.
   2. (law, obsolete) A juror.
   3. A councilman or alderman of the Cinque Ports.
   4. A magistrate of Channel Islands, serving for life, who forms part of the islands' royal court.

      Guernsey and Jersey have twelve jurats each, and Alderney six.

      • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 179:

        The Jurat came of a good old Guernsey family which, in the Middle Ages, always had the sense to fight on the side paid best [...].

   5. (historical) A municipal officer of Bordeaux and certain other French towns.
   6. (historical, in French contexts) A member of any association sworn to do nothing against its internal rules.

Synonyms

• (informant): See Thesaurus:informant
• (juror): See juror
• (official of the Cinque Ports): alderman

See also

• (French official): échevin, consul, capitoul

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "jurat, n.¹" and "jurat, n.²". Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1901.

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan jurat, from Latin j?r?tus, i?r?tus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?u??at/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /d??u??at/
• Rhymes: -at

Noun

jurat m (plural jurats)

1. jury
2. juror
3. panel of judges
4. judge

Verb

jurat m (feminine jurada, masculine plural jurats, feminine plural jurades)

1. past participle of jurar

Further reading

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

French

Etymology

From Old French, borrowed from Old Occitan jurat, from Medieval Latin i?r?tus, noun use of the perfect passive participle of Latin i?r? (“swear or take an oath”) (compare the inherited French juré).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?y.?a/

Noun

jurat m (plural jurats)

1. A sworn man, particularly:
   1. (historical) A municipal officer of Bordeaux and certain other French towns prior to the French Revolution.
   2. (historical) A medieval court officer.
   3. (historical) A member of any association sworn to do nothing against its internal rules.

Further reading

• “jurat” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

j?rat

1. third-person singular present active indicative of j?r?

Romanian

Etymology

Past participle of jura. Corresponds to Latin j?r?tus, i?r?tus. Noun sense partly based on French juré.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?rat/

Verb

jurat (past participle of jura)

1. vowed, swore
2. past participle of jura

Declension

Noun

jurat m (plural jura?i)

1. juror, member of a jury

Related terms

• juriu

References

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