jodece

Etymology
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 * The expected outcome of the stressed vowel would have been /u/. The shift to /o/ resulted from a sort of reverse-metaphony, whereby the plural was taken as implying a singular with /o/, on the pattern of nouns of metaphonic alternations such as  ⇔ . This had the effect of introducing a singular-plural distinction:   or  → ,.

Noun

 * 1) judge