different between tribunal vs authority

English

Etymology

From Old French tribunal, from Latin trib?nal (“tribunal”)

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /t?a??bjun?l/, /t???bjun?l/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t?a??bju?n?l/, /t???bju?n?l/
• Rhymes: -u?n?l

Noun

tribunal (plural tribunals)

1. 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

Anagrams

• turbinal

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /t?i.bu?nal/

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 trib?nal (“tribunal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?i.by.nal/

Noun

tribunal m (plural tribunaux)

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

Synonyms

• (court): cour

Further reading

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

Ladin

Noun

tribunal m (plural tribunai)

1. tribunal

Latin

Alternative forms

• trib?n?le

Etymology

Neuter gender of supposed adjective *trib?n?lis, from trib?nus (“tribune”), from tribus (“tribe”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tri?bu?.nal/, [t????bu?nä??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tri?bu.nal/, [t??i?bu?n?l]

Noun

trib?nal n (genitive trib?n?lis); third declension

1. a raised semicircular or square platform, on which the seats of magistrates were placed; tribunal, judgment seat, dais, camp platform
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).

Related terms

Descendants

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, 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 trib?nal.

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): /triby?nal/

Noun

tribunal m (plural tribunaj)

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin trib?nal.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /t?i.?u.?na?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /t?i.bu.?naw/
• 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

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin trib?nal (“tribunal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trib?na?l/
• Hyphenation: tri?bu?nal

Noun

tribùn?l m (Cyrillic spelling ??????????)

1. tribunal

Declension

References

• “tribunal” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin trib?nal (“tribunal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?ibu?nal/, [t??i.??u?nal]
• Hyphenation: tri?bu?nal

Noun

tribunal m (plural tribunales)

1. court
2. tribunal

Hyponyms

• tribunal civil
• tribunal de justicia
• tribunal testamentario

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

English

Alternative forms

• authourity, authoritie, autority, auctoritie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English auctorite, autorite (“authority, book or quotation that settles an argument”), from Old French auctorité, from Latin stem of auct?rit?s (“invention, advice, opinion, influence, command”), from auctor (“master, leader, author”). For the presence of the h, compare the etymology of author.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???????ti/, /???????ti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??????ti/, /??????ti/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /???t???ti/
• Hyphenation: au?thor?i?ty
• Rhymes: -???ti

Noun

authority (countable and uncountable, plural authorities)

1. (uncountable) The power to enforce rules or give orders.
   • 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V

     But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.

2. (used in singular or plural form) Persons in command; specifically, government.
3. (countable) A person accepted as a source of reliable information on a subject.
   • 1930 September 18, Albert Einstein, as quoted in Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel (1988) by Banesh Hoffman

     To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.

4. Government-owned agency which runs a revenue-generating activity.

   New York Port Authority

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• have something on good authority

References

• authority at OneLook Dictionary Search
• authority in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• authority in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.