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Adjudicate

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to make a formal judgment or decision on a disputed matter
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Stage 1 of 2
ad iudicare
Latin · ancient
"to award judicially"
to award judicially, from ad- (to) and iudicare (to judge)
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Stage 2 of 2
adjudicate
English · 1700s
"to make a formal judgment on a disputed matter"
settled as the English word for making a formal judgment on a disputed matter
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