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judecător

judge /ʒu.de.kəˈtor/

noun#1023 most common

Also: magistrate, adjudicator

Example sentences

Judecătorul este în sală.
The judge is in the room.
Judecătorul ascultă martorii.
The judge listens to the witnesses.
Judecătorul a decis să amâne procesul.
The judge decided to postpone the trial.
Avocatul i-a cerut judecătorului să reconsidere sentința.
The lawyer asked the judge to reconsider the sentence.
Judecătorii Curții Constituționale au respins recursul.
The judges of the Constitutional Court rejected the appeal.
Deciziile judecătorului, motivate riguros, au fost citate ca precedent în cauze similare.
The judge's rulings, rigorously reasoned, were cited as precedent in similar cases.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativejudecătoruljudecătorii
Genitivejudecătoruluijudecătorilor
Accusativejudecătoruljudecătorii
Vocativejudecătorulejudecătorilor

Word family

a judecato judge, to try (a case)
judecatăjudgment, trial, court case
judecătorielocal court (lowest level of Romanian courts)
judecătorescjudicial, of or belonging to judges
judecătoarefemale judge

Etymology

Judecător is built on the Romanian verb a judeca, meaning to judge, plus the agentive suffix -ător, which forms 'one who does' from a verb. A judeca itself comes from Latin iudicare, which combines ius (law, right) with the root of dicere (to say, pronounce). So a judge is, at root, the person who pronounces the law.

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