Etymology
From iūdicō (“I judge, decide”) + -ium (nominal suffix). Compare iūdex (“a judge”).
References
- “iudicium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- iudicium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- iudicium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to act in accordance with one's convictions: suo iudicio uti
- to criticise: iudicium facere
- to be a man of taste: sensum, iudicium habere
- good taste; delicate perception: iudicium subtile, elegans, exquisitum, intellegens
- to cultivate one's powers of criticism: iudicium acuere
- on principle: ratione; animi quodam iudicio
- to have no principles: omnia temere agere, nullo iudicio uti
- to give the state a constitution: civitati leges, iudicia, iura describere
- lawlessness; anarchy: iudicia nulla
- to summon some one before the court: in ius, in iudicium vocare aliquem
- to appear in court: in iudicium venire, in iudicio adesse
- to have charge of the administration of justice: iudicia administrare
- to administer justice; to judge (used of criminal cases before the praetor): iudicium exercere (vid. sect. V. 7, note The first...)
- to be president of a court: iudicio praeesse
- judicial organisation: ratio iudiciorum
- to win a case: causā or iudicio vincere
- to rescind a decision: iudicium rescindere
- “iudicium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers