different between tribunal vs commission

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French commission, from Latin commissi? (“sending together; commission”), from prefix com- (“with”), + noun of action missi? (“sending”), from perfect passive participle missus (“sent”), from the verb mitt? (“to send”), + noun of action suffix -i?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??m???n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

commission (countable and uncountable, plural commissions)

1. A sending or mission (to do or accomplish something).
2. An official charge or authority to do something, often used of military officers.
3. The thing to be done as agent for another.

4. A body or group of people, officially tasked with carrying out a particular function.
   • 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II

     A commission was at once appointed to examine into the matter.

   Synonyms: committee, government body

5. A fee charged by an agent or broker for carrying out a transaction.

   Hyponyms: (to a broker) brokerage, (to a shroff) shroffage

6. The act of committing (e.g. a crime).

   • Every commission of sin introduces into the soul a certain degree of hardness.

   Antonym: omission

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

commission (third-person singular simple present commissions, present participle commissioning, simple past and past participle commissioned)

1. (transitive) To send or officially charge someone or some group to do something.
   • 2012, August 1. Owen Gibson in Guardian Unlimited, London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal

     Stanning, who was commissioned from Sandhurst in 2008 and has served in Afghanistan, is not the first solider to bail out the organisers at these Games but will be among the most celebrated.

2. (transitive) To place an order for (often piece of art)

3. (transitive) To put into active service

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin commissio, commissionem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.mi.sj??/

Noun

commission f (plural commissions)

1. commission (fee charged by an agent or broker for carrying out a transaction)

Derived terms

• Commission européenne

Descendants

• ? Persian: ???????? (komisiyon)
• ? Turkish: komisyon

Further reading

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