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Spanish Word of the Day Archive
Sunday March 9, 2008
juicio, noun:
judgement, good sense; opinion; trial
Juicio means judgement in the sense of having common sense:
La gente del campo siempre tiene buen juicio.
People from the country always have common sense.
It’s probably more often used in the phrase a mi juicio, a nuestro juicio, in my opinion, in our opinion. This is a slightly formal way of introducing what you think.
A nuestro juicio no es su mejor película.
In our opinion it’s not her best film.
A juicio del partido, había traicionado a sus compañeros.
In the Party’s view, he’d betrayed his comrades.
And it means a legal trial:
el más celebre juicio de la época
the most famous trial of the era
Llevar a alguien a juicio means to take somebody to court.
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