verdict

English

Etymology

From Middle English verdit, from Anglo-Norman verdit (> Medieval Latin veredictum), from veir (“true”) + dit (“saying”); possibly a calque of a Germanic term such as Old English sōþword, sōþsprǣċ, sōþspell, sōþsagu, or sōþcwide, all meaning "true story, statement of truth, account, history". Doublet of veredictum.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈvɜː.dɪkt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvɝ.dɪkt/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /ˈvɜɹ.dɪt/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

verdict (plural verdicts)

1. (law) A decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest.

   The jury returned a “not guilty” verdict.

   • 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:

     Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.

   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger’s history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 124:

     When his body was retrieved, it was apparent that he had not raised his hands to cover his face. Had he suffered some sort of fit or seizure? The coroner’s verdict was accidental death.

2. An opinion or judgement.

   a “not out” verdict from the umpire

Derived terms

• bastard verdict
• directed verdict
• narrative verdict
• open verdict
• party verdict
• Scotch verdict
• Scottish verdict
• special verdict
• sympathy verdict
• verdictive
• verdict’s in
• verdict’s out

 

Translations

decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest

• Albanian: aktgjykim (sq) m, vendim (sq) m
• Arabic: حُكْم (ar) m (ḥukm)
• Armenian: վճիռ (hy) (včiṙ), դատավճիռ (hy) (datavčiṙ), վերդիկտ (hy) (verdikt)
• Azerbaijani: hökm (az)
• Basque: epai
• Belarusian: пры́суд m (prýsud), пры́гавар m (prýhavar), прыгаво́р m (pryhavór), вы́рак m (výrak), верды́кт m (vjerdýkt), вэрды́кт m (verdýkt)
• Bulgarian: присъ́да (bg) f (prisǎ́da), верди́кт (bg) m (verdíkt)
• Catalan: veredicte m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 裁決／裁决 (zh) (cáijué), 裁定 (zh) (cáidìng)

• Czech: výrok (cs) m, rozsudek (cs) m, verdikt (cs) m
• Danish: kendelse c, dom (da) c
• Dutch: uitspraak (nl), oordeel (nl)
• Esperanto: verdikto
• Estonian: otsus, kohtuotsus, verdikt
• Finnish: tuomio (fi)
• French: verdict (fr) m
• Georgian: განაჩენი (ganačeni), გადაწყვეტილება (gadac̣q̇veṭileba), ვერდიქტი (verdikṭi)
• German: Gerichtsurteil (de) n, Urteil (de) n
• Greek: ετυμηγορία (el) f (etymigoría)

  Ancient: κρίσις f (krísis)

• Hebrew: פְּסַק דִּין (he) m (psak din)
• Hindi: निर्णय (hi) m (nirṇay), फ़ैसला m (faislā)
• Hungarian: ítélet (hu)
• Icelandic: úrskurður (is) m, dómur (is) m, dómsúrskurður m
• Interlingua: verdicto
• Irish: breithiúnas (ga) m, breith f, fíorasc m
• Italian: verdetto (it) m
• Japanese: 評決 (ja) (ひょうけつ, hyōketsu)
• Kazakh: үкім (ükım)
• Khmer: សាលក្រម (km) (saal krɑm)
• Korean: 평결(評決) (ko) (pyeonggyeol)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: hûkûm, hikm (ku)

• Kyrgyz: өкүм (ky) (öküm)
• Latin: crīmen n
• Latvian: spriedums m, verdikts m
• Lithuanian: nuosprendis (lt) m, verdiktas m
• Macedonian: пресуда m (presuda)
• Malayalam: വിധി (ml) (vidhi)
• Maori: whakataunga
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjennelse (no) m

• Pashto: حکم (ps) m (hokm)
• Persian: حکم (fa) (hokm)
• Polish: orzeczenie (pl) n, werdykt (pl) m, wyrok (pl) m
• Portuguese: veredito (pt) m
• Romanian: verdict (ro) n
• Russian: пригово́р (ru) m (prigovór), реше́ние (ru) n (rešénije) (суда́), верди́кт (ru) m (verdíkt)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пре̏суда f, правомоћна пресуда f

  Roman: prȅsuda (sh) f, pravomoćna presuda f

• Slovak: výrok m, rozsudok m, verdikt m
• Slovene: sodba f, razsodba f
• Spanish: veredicto (es) m, fallo (es) m
• Swedish: utslag (sv) n, dom (sv) c, domslut (sv) n
• Tagalog: hatol
• Tajik: ҳукм (hukm)
• Tatar: хөкем (tt) (xökem)
• Telugu: తీర్పు (te) (tīrpu)
• Thai: คำพิพากษา (th) (kam-pí-pâak-sǎa)
• Turkish: hüküm (tr)
• Turkmen: höküm
• Ukrainian: ви́рок (uk) m (výrok), при́суд m (prýsud), при́говор m (prýhovor), верди́кт m (verdýkt)
• Urdu: فیصلہ m (faislā), حکم (ur) m (hukm)
• Uyghur: ھۆكۈم (höküm)
• Uzbek: hukm (uz)
• Vietnamese: bản án (vi)
• Welsh: rheithfarn f

opinion or judgement

• Belarusian: суджэ́нне n (sudžénnje)
• Bulgarian: мнение (bg) n (mnenie), съждение (bg) n (sǎždenie)
• Catalan: parer (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 裁決／裁决 (zh) (cáijué), 判斷／判断 (zh) (pànduàn)

• Danish: mening c, udtalelse c
• Dutch: oordeel (nl)
• Finnish: lausunto (fi)
• Georgian: განაჩენი (ganačeni), ვერდიქტი (verdikṭi), გადაწყვეტილება (gadac̣q̇veṭileba)
• German: Urteil (de) n
• Irish: tuairim (ga) f
• Japanese: 判定 (ja) (はんてい, hantei)
• Korean: 판정(判定) (ko) (panjeong)
• Latin: sententia f
• Russian: сужде́ние (ru) n (suždénije), верди́кт (ru) m (verdíkt)
• Spanish: fallo (es) m
• Swedish: mening (sv) c, utlåtande (sv) n
• Turkish: hüküm (tr)
• Ukrainian: су́дження n (súdžennja)
• Welsh: dyfarniad m, barn (cy) f

Further reading

• “verdict”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “verdict”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛʁ.dikt/

• Audio:

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Noun

verdict m (plural verdicts)

1. verdict

Further reading

• “verdict”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle English

Noun

verdict

1. Alternative form of verdit

Old French

Noun

verdict oblique singular, m (oblique plural verdicz or verdictz, nominative singular verdicz or verdictz, nominative plural verdict)

1. Alternative form of verdit

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French verdict.

Noun

verdict n (plural verdicte)

1. verdict

Declension

Declension of verdict

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) verdict	verdictul	(niște) verdicte	verdictele
genitive/dative	(unui) verdict	verdictului	(unor) verdicte	verdictelor
vocative	verdictule		verdictelor