köken: Inherited from Chagatai عَدالَت (ʿadālat /adālät/, “justice”), from Classical Persian عَدَالَت (adālat, “justice”), from Arabic عَدَالَةٌ f (ʕadālatun, “justice”). Cognate with Uyghur ئادالەت / adalet / адаләт (“justice”). Compare also Kazakh әділет (ädılet), Turkish adalet, etc.
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese, from justo + -eza, or possibly from Latin iūstitia. Compare Spanish justeza, Galician and Asturian xusteza, Catalan and Occitan justesa, French justesse, Italian giustezza, Friulian justece. See also justiça, possibly a doublet.
fairness, justness, justice, equitability (property or state of being fair or equitable) · rightfulness (state or quality of being rightful, in accordance with law)
köken: From Old Norse réttr, from Proto-Germanic *rehtaz, cognate with Swedish rätt, rät, English right, German recht, gerecht. The Germanic adjective goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵtós, hence Latin rēctus (“straight”), Ancient Greek ὀρεκτός (orektós, “stretched out”).
en ret linje
den rette arving
Strik skiftevis tre masker ret og to vrang.
Etimoloji
Probably from an earlier dreptătate, from drept + -tate. Other theories have included a Latin root *direct(it)atem, from directus, though this is unlikely. Compare Aromanian ndriptati.