legist

English

Etymology

From Middle French légiste, from Medieval Latin lēgista, from Latin lex (“law”). Compare legal.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈliːdʒɪst/

Noun

legist (plural legists)

1. One skilled in the law.
   • 1933 September, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Second Conference at Basra, 1978”, in The Shape of Things to Come, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, 3rd book (The World Renascence: The Birth of the Modern State), page 309:

     There were a number of lawyers of the older type, men in sharp contrast and antagonism to the younger legists of the new American school.

2. A writer on law; also, a lawmaker, a legislator.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 3:

     ‘King and kingdom,’ concurred d'Aguesseau, wisest of wise eighteenth-century legists, ‘form a single entity.’

Translations

legislator — see legislator

one skilled in the law

• Bulgarian: законовед m (zakonoved)
• Finnish: lainoppinut (fi)
• Gothic: 𐍅𐌹𐍄𐍉𐌳𐌰𐍆𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌴𐌹𐍃 m (witōdafasteis)
• Russian: правове́д (ru) m (pravovéd)

Anagrams

• gilets, legits

Middle English

Noun

legist

1. legist: one skilled in the law
   • 1484, William Caxton (translator), Aesop’s Fables, “The Wulf whiche made a fart” in The Fables of Aesop as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, edited by Joseph Jacobs, London: David Nutt, 1889, Volume II, p. 162,^[1]

     Item my fader was no legist ne never knewe the lawes, ne also man of Justyce, and to gyve sentence of a plee, I wold entremete me, and fayned my self grete Justycer, but I knewe neyther, a, ne, b,

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French légiste.

Adjective

legist m or n (feminine singular legistă, masculine plural legiști, feminine and neuter plural legiste)

1. forensic

Declension

Declension of legist

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	legist		legistă	legiști	legiste
	definite	legistul		legista	legiștii	legistele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	legist		legiste	legiști	legiste
	definite	legistului		legistei	legiștilor	legistelor