tribunal

PIE word
*tréyes

From Old French tribunal, from Latin tribūnal (“tribunal”), from tribus (“tribe”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /tɹaɪˈbjunəl/, /tɹəˈbjunəl/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɹaɪˈbjuːnəl/, /tɹɪˈbjuːnəl/

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• Rhymes: -uːnəl

tribunal (plural tribunals)

1. (law) An assembly including one or more judges to conduct judicial business; a court of law.
   • 1611, Thomas Coryate, Coryat's Crudities hastily gobbled up in Five Months Travels in France, Italy, &c:

     Having now so amply declared unto thee most of the principal things of this thrice-renowned and illustrious city, I will briefly by way of an epitome mention most of the other particulars thereof, and so finally shut up this narration: there are reported to be in Venice and the circumjacent islands two hundred churches in which are one hundred forth-three pairs of organs, fifty-four monasteries, twenty-six nunneries, fifty-six tribunals or places of judgment, seventeen hospitals, six companies or fraternities, whereof I have before spoken; one hundred and sixty-five marble statues of worthy personages, partly equestrial, partly pedestrial, which are erected in sundry places of the city, to the honour of those that either at home have prudently administered the commonweal, or abroad valiantly fought for the same.

2. (Philippines, historical) A kind of village hall used to transact business, to quarter troops and travellers, and to confine prisoners.

• anti-blur, turbinal, untribal

• IPA^(key): (Central) [tɾi.βuˈnal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [tɾi.buˈnal]

tribunal m (plural tribunals)

1. tribunal

• “tribunal”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Borrowed from Latin tribūnal (“tribunal”).

• IPA^(key): /tʁi.by.nal/

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tribunal m (plural tribunaux)

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

   Synonym: cour

• “tribunal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Dutch tribunaal, from French tribunal, from Old French tribunal, from Latin tribūnal (“tribunal”)

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /triˈbunal/ [t̪riˈbu.nal]
• Rhymes: -unal
• Syllabification: tri‧bu‧nal

tribunal (plural tribunal-tribunal)

1. tribunal

• “tribunal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

tribunal m (plural tribunai)

1. tribunal

• tribūnāle (rare)

Neuter gender of supposed adjective *tribūnālis, from tribūnus (“tribune”), from tribus (“tribe”). Equivalently, tribūnus +‎ -al.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [trɪˈbuː.naɫ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t̪riˈbuː.nal]

tribūnal n (genitive tribūnālis); third declension

1. a raised semicircular or square platform, on which the seats of magistrates were placed; tribunal, judgment seat, dais, camp platform
   • 27 - 25 BC . Ab Urbe Condita, Titus Livius, II, Chapter XII.

     Ubi eo venit, in confertissima turba prope regium tribunal constitit.

     When he came there, he was standing in the crammed crowd, near the king's tribunal.

2. cenotaph
3. (metonymic) 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

Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem).

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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

Borrowed from Latin tribūnal.

tribunal oblique singular, m (oblique plural tribunaus or tribunax or tribunals, nominative singular tribunaus or tribunax or tribunals, nominative plural tribunal)

1. tribunal; court

tribunal m (oblique and nominative feminine singular tribunale)

1. of or relating to a tribunal

• → English: tribunal
• French: tribunal

• tribünal

• IPA^(key): /tribyˈnal/

tribunal m (plural tribunaj)

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From Latin tribūnal.

• Rhymes: -al, -aw
• Hyphenation: tri‧bu‧nal

tribunal m (plural tribunais)

1. court
2. tribunal

• “tribunal” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Borrowed from French tribunal or Latin tribunal.

tribunal n (plural tribunale)

1. tribunal, courthouse

From Latin tribūnal (“tribunal”).

• IPA^(key): /tribǔnaːl/
• Hyphenation: tri‧bu‧nal

tribùnāl m inan (Cyrillic spelling трибу̀на̄л)

1. tribunal

• “tribunal”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

From Latin tribūnal (“tribunal”).

• IPA^(key): /tɾibuˈnal/ [t̪ɾi.β̞uˈnal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: tri‧bu‧nal

tribunal m (plural tribunales)

1. court
2. tribunal

• juzgado
• corte
• juicio

• “tribunal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

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

• krigsförbrytartribunal
• militärtribunal
• revolutionstribunal

Borrowed from Spanish tribunal.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /tɾibuˈnal/ [t̪ɾɪ.bʊˈn̪al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: tri‧bu‧nal

tribunál (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜇᜒᜊᜓᜈᜎ᜔)

1. tribunal; court

   Synonyms: korte, hukuman, husgado