different between tribunal vs consistory

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

From Old Northern French consistorie (“secular tribunal”) (Old French consistoire), and Late Latin consistorium (“waiting room, meeting place of the imperial council”). Meaning "Church council" is from early 14th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?s?st??i/

Noun

consistory (plural consistories)

1. A place of standing or staying together; hence, any solemn assembly or council.
2. The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere.
   • 1860-1876, Walter Hook, Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury

     In 1551 we find Bertholier excommunicated by the consistory because he would not allow that he had done wrong in asserting that he was as good a man as Calvin

3. An assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at Rome.
4. A church tribunal or governing body, especially of elders in a Reformed church.
5. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (obsolete) A civil court of justice.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

References

• consistory in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.