justiça

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese justiça, borrowed from Latin iūstitia (“justice”).[1][2] Cognate with Galician xustiza, Spanish justicia, Catalan justícia, Occitan justícia, French justice, Italian giustizia and Romanian justiție. See also justeza, possibly a doublet.

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ʒusˈt͡ʃi.sɐ/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ʒuʃˈt͡ʃi.sɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ʒusˈt͡ʃi.sa/

  • Rhymes: (most dialects) -isɐ, (Southern Brazil) -isa
  • Hyphenation: jus‧ti‧ça

Noun

justiça f (plural justiças)

  1. justice
  2. (metonymically) court

References
  1. Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa
  2. “Notes on the Development of -kj-,-tj- in Spanish and Portuguese”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, 2012 February 6 (last accessed), archived from the original on 7 February 2012
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