appellate

English

Etymology

From Latin appellātus.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /əˈpɛlət/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛlət

Adjective

appellate (not comparable)

1. That can be (legally) appealed to, especially of a court that hears appeals of decisions by a lower court.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 228:

     In this game of bluff and counter-bluff, the parlementaires calculated that their absence – which entailed much of the country being without an appellate jurisdiction – would force the government to treat for terms.

Derived terms

• appellate court
• appellate jurisdiction
• nonappellate

Translations

pertaining to something that is appealed to

Armenian: վերաքննիչ (hy) (verakʻnničʻ) Chinese: Mandarin: 受理上訴的 / 受理上诉的 (shòulǐ shàngsù de), 上訴 / 上诉 (zh) (shàngsù) Czech: odvolací m Finnish: valitus- (fi), vetoomus- (fi) Greek: εφετικός (el) m (efetikós) Kazakh: апелляциялық (apelläsiälyq) Polish: apelacyjny (pl) Portuguese: apelado (pt), apelatório Russian: апелляцио́нный (ru) (apelljaciónnyj) Serbo-Croatian: apelacijski (sh), prizivni (sh) Spanish: apelacional, apelatorio m

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

appellate

1. inflection of appellare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

appellate f pl

1. feminine plural of appellato

Latin

Verb

appellāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of appellō

Participle

appellāte

1. vocative masculine singular of appellātus