“judgement” in Latin

(I.) judicium (PROP., a judicial decision founded upon positive enactments; hence general term, a decision grounded upon a deliberate view or estimate): arbitrium (PROP., the sentence of an umpire, founded upon a sense of right or equity; hence general term for the decision of one’s judgement, free choice, etc.): decretum (the final decree of the emperor, after an appeal to him): sententia (an opinion which one forms or pronounces, either in common life or as a senator or magistrate). Often rendered by circumlocution with sentire (e.g., negligere quid quisque de se sentiat; judices quod sentiunt, libere judicant): existimatio (an opinion formed upon a deliberate estimate of the value of anything). An impartial judgement, judicium liberius: to pronounce judgement, sententiam dicere (to declare one’s opinion, whether as writer, senator, or even as judge); sententiam pronunciare (of the presiding judge, after the investigation and individual votes; sententias ferre is of the individual votes of the jurymen, etc.): to form a judgement, facere judicium alicujus rei, de aliqua re, de aliquo: to give or deliver a judgement, sententiam ferre de aliquo or de aliqua re (☞ judicia ferre, for sententias ferre, Cic., Fragm. Or. in Tog. Cand., is unusual): to give judgement against anybody in a capital cause, condemnare or condemnare capitis: to reverse a judgement, rem judicatam labefactare: in my judgement, meo judicio; quantum ego judico; ex (or de) mea sententia; ut mihi quidem videtur: to form one’s own judgement, suo judicio uti (opposed to aliorum judicio stare). (II) To sit in judgement, judicium facere (to appoint a judicial investigation, in a single instance): jus dicere, agere (general terms): judicium exercere (to conduct a trial; of the presiding judge): quaerere et judicia exercere; conventum agere (of an appointed judge, like our judge of assize, at certain times and at certain places; e.g., of a governor in a province): to sit in judgement on anybody, judicium facere de aliquo; on anything, jus dicere de re; cognoscere de re (to institute an investigation): it is not for me to sit in judgement upon anybody or anything, est aliquid non mei judicii; non mea est de aliquo aestimatio (because it does not become me); aliquid procul est a meo judicio (because I do not understand it): to form a favorable judgement of anybody, bonum judicium facere de aliquo; bene existimare de aliquo; an unfavorable one, male existimare de aliquo: to form the same judgement of anything as some one else, de aliqua re idem sentire, quod aliquis: to form one’s judgement of anything by anything, judicare, aestimare aliquid re or ex re; existimare ex re, de re [SYN. in JUDGE]; pendere, pensare aliquid ex re; ponderare aliquid re (to weigh one thing according to the value of another); metiri aliquid re (as it were, to measure out anything as the rule or measure of anything, and to estimate its value accordingly): aliquid referre ad rem (to bring anything into comparison with something else; e.g., alienos mores ad suos referre). The day of judgement, summum judicium, quod Deus faciet in hac terra (after Lactantius, 2, 12, 19): extremum judicium (Lactantius, Div. Inst., 7, 26).

Discriminating intelligence, judicium (e.g., judicium habet aliquis; judicium non deest alicui). A man of great judgement, vir acri magnoque judicio; qui habet intelligens (peracre, subtile, etc.) judicium. Vid. PRUDENCE, WISDOM.