Other forms: tribunals
A tribunal is a special court set up to judge one kind of dispute. An employment tribunal, take it to tribunal, a tribunal of inquiry.
It is meant to be quicker and less formal than a court, and in Britain you can bring an employment case without a lawyer. International tribunals have tried war crimes since Nuremberg. The Latin named the raised platform a tribune sat on.
1nountribunalA special court set up to judge one kind of dispute.
“A special tribunal was set up to judge the war crimes.”
tribunal is a court.
Latin tribunal named the raised platform where a tribune sat, from tribus, a tribe.
Proto-Indo-European
*tréyes
Latin
tribūnal — tribunal
Old French
tribunal
English, today
tribunal
Built from
From Old French tribunal, from Latin tribūnal (“tribunal”), from tribus (“tribe”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA