different between tribunal vs courtroom

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

court +? room

Noun

courtroom (plural courtrooms)

1. The room where a judge presides over hearings and trials, sometimes with a jury.

Hypernyms

• room

Translations