justo

See also: Justo and justó

Galician

Adjective

justo (feminine justa, masculine plural justos, feminine plural justas, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of xusto

Further reading

• “justo”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026

Latin

Adjective

jūstō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of jūstus

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• iusto (alternative spelling)

Etymology

From Latin iūstus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʒusto/

Noun

justo m (plural justos, feminine singular justa, feminine plural justas)

1. someone just, righteous
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 2r:

     […] Quiçab. ha .L. iuſtos en eſta uilla e pues matar los as. E non parçiras allogar por los .L. iuſtos. Por fer eſta coſa uedado ſea ati. de matar el iuſto por el peccador. Nõ ſe juez en toda la tierra q̃ fẏzies eſte iudizio.

     [“ […] Quiçab ha cinquaenta justos en esta villa e pues matar-los-ás. E non parcirás allogar por los cinquaenta justos. Por fer esta cosa vedado sea a ti, de matar el justo por el peccador. Non sé juez en toda la tierra que fizies' este judizio.”]

     “[…] Perhaps there are fifty righteous in this city and thus you would kill them. Will you not spare the place for the fifty righteous? To do such a thing is far from you; to kill the righteous because of the sinner. I know not of a judge on earth who would make such a judgment”.

Adjective

justo (feminine singular justa, masculine plural justos, feminine plural justas)

1. just, righteous
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 14v:

     embio pharaon amoẏſen ⁊ aaron. E dixo les peq̃ eſta uez el criador es iuſto. ⁊ ẏo e mio pueblo ſomos peccadores. […]

     [Embió Pharaon a Moysen e Aaron, e dixo-les “Pequé esta vez, el Criador es justo. e yo e mío pueblo somos peccadores. […]”]

     Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron and said, “This time I have sinned against you, and the Creator is just, and my people and I are sinners. […]”

Related terms

• justicia
• justificar

Descendants

• Ladino: djusto
• Spanish: justo

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese justo, from Latin iūstus (“just, righteous”), jūstus, from Proto-Italic *jowestos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yew-.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʒus.tu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʒus.tu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈʒuʃ.tu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʒus.to/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʒuʃ.tu/

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ustu, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -uʃtu
• Hyphenation: jus‧to

Adjective

justo (feminine justa, masculine plural justos, feminine plural justas, comparable, comparative mais justo, superlative o mais justo or justíssimo)

1. free from sin and guilt; righteous
2. morally justified; righteous
3. fair, just
4. tight

Derived terms

• justa causa

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: justu
• → Indonesian: justru (“precisely so”)
• → Tetum: justu

Further reading

• “justo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “justo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish justo, inherited from Latin iūstus, jūstus, from Proto-Italic *jowestos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yew-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxusto/ [ˈxus.t̪o]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -usto
• Syllabification: jus‧to

Adverb

justo

1. right, just
2. exactly
3. tightly

Derived terms

• justo a tiempo

Adjective

justo (feminine justa, masculine plural justos, feminine plural justas, superlative justísimo)

1. just
2. fair

   Synonym: equitativo

Derived terms

• bromas las justas
• comercio justo
• con las justas
• en arca abierta el justo peca
• en su justa medida
• justedad
• pagar justos por pecadores

Verb

justo

1. first-person singular present indicative of justar

Further reading

• “justo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Venetan

Etymology

From Latin iūstus, jūstus (compare Italian giusto).

Adjective

justo (feminine singular justa, masculine plural justi, feminine plural juste)

1. right
2. just, fair