juez

• IPA^(key): /ʒuɛz/, /d͡ʒuɛs/

juez

1. imperative of juar

• juiz, judez

Inherited from Latin iūdicem. Cognate with Old Galician-Portuguese juiz and Old French juge.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʒues̪/

juez m (plural juezes)

1. judge
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 2r:

     […] Quiçab. ha .L. iuſtos en eſta uilla e pues matar los as. E non parçiras allogar por los .L. iuſtos. Por fer eſta coſa uedado ſea ati. de matar el iuſto por el peccador. Nõ ſe juez en toda la tierra q̃ fẏzies eſte iudizio.

     “ […] Perhaps there are fifty righteous in this city and thus you would kill them. Will you not spare the place for the fifty righteous? To do such a thing is far from you; to kill the righteous because of the sinner. I know not of a judge on earth who would make such a judgment”.

• judgar
• juizio

• Ladino: גואיס (jues)
• Spanish: juez (see there for further descendants)

Inherited from Old Spanish juez, juiz, judez, from Latin iudex (“iūdicem”)

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈxweθ/ [ˈxweθ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈxwes/ [ˈxwes]

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• (Spain) Rhymes: -eθ
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -es
• Syllabification: juez

juez m or f by sense (plural jueces, feminine juez or jueza, feminine plural jueces or juezas)

1. judge
2. umpire; referee; official

• → Tagalog: huwes

• “juez”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014