Word Origin Summary

Lēgitimus is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• לגיטימי

  Hebrew · derived from

• legitymować

  Polish · derived from

• legitimar

  Spanish · derived from

• легитимен

  Bulgarian · derived from

• legitymizować

  Polish · borrowed from

• lexítimo

  Galician · borrowed from

• légitime

  French · borrowed from

• legitimar

  Portuguese · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root