Other forms: judgments
Judgment is the ability to decide well, or a court's decision. Good judgment, an error of judgment, the court's judgment.
The spelling splits: judgment without an e is standard in law everywhere and in American English generally, and judgement with an e is usual in British non-legal writing — so a British newspaper may print both in one issue quite correctly. An error of judgment is the standard formula for a mistake nobody wants to call worse. Note judge; and that the Latin is about saying the law.
1nounjudgmentThe ability to decide well.
“I trust her judgment; she always knows the right thing to do.”
2nouncourtsA court's decision.
“The judge will give her judgment at the end of the week.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
judgment is a decision or discernment.
Also accepted in games: judgement
Old French jugement comes from Latin iudicare, to judge — ius, law, plus dicere, to say. Judge, jury and just come from the same law.
Latin
iūdicāmentum
Old French
jugement
Middle English
juggement
English, today
judgment
From Middle English juggement, borrowed from Old French jugement, from Latin iūdicāmentum, from Latin iūdicō. Partially doom. by surface analysis, en + judge + ment.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA