# judicial
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin iūdiciālis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /d͡ʒuˈdɪʃəl/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪʃəl
* Hyphenation: ju‧di‧cial

### Adjective

judicial (comparative more judicial, superlative most judicial)
* Of or relating to the administration of justice.
* Of or relating to the court system or the judicial branch of government.
** 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
* (Ireland, historical) specified by a civil bill court under the terms of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881
    judicial rent, judicial lease
* Of or relating to judgeship or the judiciary, the collective body of judges.
* Of or relating to sound judgment; judicious (but see Usage notes).

#### Usage notes

Many editors maintain a differentiation between judicial and judicious and believe that writers should not confuse judicial (having to do with justice and judiciary systems) with judicious (showing good judgment), so for example judicious use of X (i.e. wisely chosen) is not interchangeable with judicial use of X (i.e. by the courts). Meanwhile, the word juridical is not well differentiated in meaning from judicial, the two having substantial semantic overlap.

#### Synonyms

* justiciary

#### Derived terms

* extract from the judicial record
* extrajudicial
* judicial activism
* judicial astrology
* judicial day
* judicialese
* judicial factor
* judicial notice
* judicial officer
* judicial police
* judicial relief
* judicial remedy
* judicial restraint
* judicial review
* judicial separation
* judicial temperament
* nonjudicial
* unjudicial

#### Related terms

* adjudged
* adjudicated
* judge
* judiciary

#### Translations
### Noun

judicial (uncountable)
* That branch of government which is responsible for maintaining the courts of law and for the administration of justice.
    Synonym: judiciary

#### Translations
### See also

* juridicial

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin iūdiciālis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ʒu.ði.siˈal]
* IPA: (Valencia) [d͡ʒu.ði.siˈal]

### Adjective

judicial m or f (masculine and feminine plural judicials)
* judicial

#### Derived terms

* extrajudicial
* judicialment

#### Related terms

* judici
* jutge
* jutjar

### Further reading

* “judicial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “judicial”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “judicial” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “judicial” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Galician
### Adjective

judicial m or f (plural judiciais, reintegrationist norm)
* reintegrationist spelling of xudicial

### References

* “judicial” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin iūdiciālis.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ʒu.d͡ʒi.siˈaw/ [ʒu.d͡ʒi.sɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /ʒu.d͡ʒiˈsjaw/ [ʒu.d͡ʒiˈsjaʊ̯]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ʒu.diˈsjal/ [ʒu.ðiˈsjaɫ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ʒu.diˈsjal/ [ʒu.ðiˈsjaɫ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ʒu.diˈsja.li/ [ʒu.ðiˈsja.li]

### Adjective

judicial m or f (plural judiciais)
* judicial
** 2007, Leonardo Barreto Moreira Neves, O fim da culpa na separação judicial, Editora del Rey, →ISBN, page 148:A questão jurídica em debate foi com precisão resumida pelo Ministro Castro Filho: "É possível o juiz decretar a separação judicial do casal por culpa recíproca ou insuportabilidade da vida em comum, quando o pedido de separação é fundado na culpa exclusiva de um dos cônjuges, ausente a reconvenção".(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Derived terms

* extrajudicial
* judicializar
* judicialmente

#### Related terms

* judiciário
* juiz
* juízo
* julgar

### Further reading

* “judicial”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* “judicial”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin iūdiciālis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Spain) /xudiˈθjal/ [xu.ð̞iˈθjal]
* IPA: (Latin America, Philippines) /xudiˈsjal/ [xu.ð̞iˈsjal]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -al
* Syllabification: ju‧di‧cial

### Adjective

judicial m or f (masculine and feminine plural judiciales)
* judicial

#### Derived terms

* carrera judicial
* decreto judicial
* extrajudicial
* judicialmente
* policía judicial
* tutela judicial
* tutela judicial efectiva

#### Related terms

* juez
* juicio
* juzgar

### Further reading

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