Feminine

justiça

Sentences
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A  Direcção-Geral  da   Justiça   facilita   a   abordagem   do   cidadão   à   justiça .

The Directorate-General for Justice facilitates the citizen's approach to justice.

Meaning

  1. (feminine) justice
  2. (feminine, metonymically) court

Synonyms

Frequency

B1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ʒusˈt͡ʃi.sɐ/
Etymology

In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese justiça, borrowed from Latin iūstitia (“justice”). Cognate with Galician xustiza, Spanish justicia, Catalan justícia, Occitan justícia, French justice, Italian giustizia, Sicilian justizzia and Romanian justiție. See also justeza, possibly a doublet.

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