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Translation

law (as a discipline), jurisprudence

Word origin

From Latin ius, iuris, meaning law and also a right. English jury, jurist, justice and injury all come from the same Latin family.

Origin
Latin
Root
ius, iuris
English cognates
jurist, jurisdiction, justice

Examples

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He is studying law at the university.

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International law protects the rights of every person.

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In law the words have to be precise.

is law as a body of rules and as a subject you can study: , . A single statute is a leĝo. English collapses both into 'law', so this is a distinction the learner has to build rather than translate.

Three neighbouring adjectives, three different meanings. Jura means legal, to do with the law as a field. Justa means fair, and a jura decision can be thoroughly unfair. Leĝa means lawful, in accordance with the statute.

Now the trap. Ĵuri, to swear an oath, looks like the same word with a hat on. In Latin it genuinely is family: iurare, to swear, is built on ius. In Esperanto they are two separate roots, - and -, and the only thing standing between them is the circumflex. Write when you mean and you have written something that is not a word.

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This word is part of lesson 37.