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Translation

courthouse, the building where cases are heard

Word origin

Not a borrowing at all: juĝi ('to judge') plus the suffix -ej-, which makes the place where an action happens. Juĝi itself comes to Esperanto from Latin judicare by way of French juger.

Origin
Built in Esperanto, on a Latin root
Root
juĝi + -ej-
English cognates
judge, judicial

Examples

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The courthouse stands next to the old church.

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Tomorrow we have to go to the courthouse.

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In the courthouse the lawyer read the whole letter.

Decode it and you get it free. -- is the place suffix, and it is one of the highest-yield affixes in the language: a school from , a church from , o a kitchen from , a bathroom from . So plus -- is the judging-place, and a learner who knows both halves has never needed to be taught this word. That is the whole argument for Esperanto's word-formation system in one entry, and the affixes article has the rest of the family.

Where stops and starts. , at rank 2,032, is the institution: the court as a body with authority, the bench, the thing you can be summoned before. is the building: bricks, doors, a public gallery. So (the court ruled) but is (we met outside the courthouse). English blurs the two under one word and lets context sort it out; Esperanto makes you choose, and the choice is usually easy - if it could have a roof leak, it is a .

The rest of the family. o is a judge (the person, --), juĝo is a judgement, and o is the process of trying a case. is the lawsuit itself.

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This word is part of lesson 47.