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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