subpoena

Other forms of subpoena

plural

subpoenas·

past tense

subpoenaed·

present participle

subpoenaing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about subpoena

What does subpoena mean?

subpoena means "a writ issued by court authority to compel the attendance of a witness at a judicial proceeding; disobedience may be punishable as a contempt of court". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in subpoena?

subpoena has 3 syllables: sub-poe-na. The stress falls on "poe". In IPA it is /səˈpinə/.

What is another word for subpoena?

Close synonyms include subpoena ad testificandum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is subpoena a common word?

subpoena is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.