Where does “tribunal” come from?
Tribunal comes from Old French tribunal, from Latin tribunal meaning a raised platform for magistrates, derived from tribunus, an official of a tribe, from tribus tribe, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European tréyes meaning three.
tribunal (English): An assembly including one or more judges to...
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- An assembly including one or more judges to...
Ancestry of “tribunal”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Old French | tribunal | tribunal; court; of or relating to a tribunal |
| 2 | Latin | tribunal | a raised semicircular or square platform, on... |
| 3 | Latin | tribus | One of the three original tribes of Rome: Ramnes,... |
| 4 | Latin | trēs | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | trēs | three |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | *tréyes | — |