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legittimità

legitimacy

noun leh-jeet-tee-mee-TAH Less Common

Origin: from Latin 'legitimus', lawful

Usage Note

Legittimità means legitimacy or lawfulness, frequent in legal and political prose. Like all Italian nouns ending in a stressed -tà, it is invariable in the plural and always feminine, so you say le legittimità with no change to the ending.

Examples

"Contestano la legittimità del voto."

Natural Translation

They contest the legitimacy of the vote.

Literal Translation

They-contest the legitimacy of-the vote.

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