jurat
French, noun
jurat is spelled J-U-R-A-T (5 letters) and appears about once in every 38 million words in written French, the 196,291st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Jurat is a French masculine noun meaning “a municipal officer of Bordeaux and certain other French towns prior to the French Revolution” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, jurât is a different word: “third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of jurer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ancien titre d’office municipal donné avant la révolution dans plusieurs villes du sud de la France aux…”.
What does jurat mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea municipal officer of Bordeaux and certain other French towns prior to the French Revolution.
- 2
masculinea medieval court officer.
- 3
masculinea member of any association sworn to do nothing against its internal rules.
verb
- 1
third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of jurer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ancien titre d’office municipal donné avant la révolution dans plusieurs villes du sud de la France aux consuls ou aux échevins.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of jurat
- jurats plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is jurat in French?
jurat appears about once in every 38 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).