justice

Meaning

Noun

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Origin

  • From Middle English justice, from Old French justise, justice (Modern French justice), from Latin iūstitia, from iūstus, from iūs, from Proto-Italic *jowos, perhaps literally "sacred formula", a word peculiar to Latin (not general Italic) that originated in the religious cults, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yew-. Justitia.
  • Displaced native .

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