Gesetz

From Middle High German gesetze, gesetzede, from Old High German gisezzida (“fixing, determination, assessment”), from sezzen (“to make sit, set, put”), from Proto-West Germanic *sattjan (“to set, put down”).

Gesetz n

1. (Uri) law

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 74.

• Gesez (obsolete)

From Middle High German gesetze, gesetzede, from Old High German gisezzida (“fixing, determination, assessment”), from sezzen (“to make sit, set, put”), from Proto-West Germanic *sattjan (“to set, put down”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡəˈzɛt͡s/
• IPA^(key): /ɡ̥eˈsɛt͡s/ (Austria)

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• Rhymes: -ɛts
• Hyphenation: Ge‧setz

Gesetz n (strong, genitive Gesetzes, plural Gesetze)

1. law, legal act, bill, statute
   2. (förmliches Gesetz) a bill by the parliamentary legislator according to the procedures devised in the state’s constitution
   4. (materielles Gesetz) any formally published legal norm, a regulation affecting anyone in an unlimited number of cases

      Hyponyms: Gesetz, Rechtsverordnung, Satzung

      Synonym: Ordnung

      Coordinate term: Verwaltungsakt

   5. a principle governing the phenomena in a particular field of science, a law of nature
   6. (colloquial, law) ellipsis of Gesetzessammlung (“lawbook”)

      Hast du dein Gesetz mit? ― Is your lawbook with you?

• “Gesetz” in Duden online
• “Gesetz” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Gesetz” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

From Middle High German gesetze, gesetzede, from Old High German gisezzida (“fixing, determination, assessment”), from sezzen (“to make sit, set, put”), from Proto-West Germanic *sattjan (“to set, put down”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡeˈzæts/, [ɡəˈzæt͡s]

Gesetz n (plural Gesetzer)

1. law
   • Luxembourgish translation of Matthew 5:17:

     De Jesus sot zu senge Jünger: "Mengt net, ech wär komm, fir d'Gesetz oder d'Prophéiten ofzeschafen! Ech sinn net komm fir ofzeschafen, ma fir z'erfëllen."

     Jesus said to his disciples: "Do not think that I came to annul the law or the prophets! I am come not to annul, but to fulfill."

• Aarbechtsgesetz
• gesetzlech