legislature

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Etymology

1676, from stem of legislator + -ure, cognate with (French): législature

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Noun

legislature (plural legislatures)

1. A governmental body with the power to make, amend and repeal laws.
2. (Canada) A legislative building.

Translations

governmental body

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 立法機關 (cmn), 立法机关 (cmn) (lìfǎ jīguān)

• Czech: zákonodárný sbor (cs) m, legislativa (cs) f
• Dutch: wetgevende macht f and m
• Finnish: lainsäädäntöelin (fi)
• French: corps législatif (fr) m
• German: Legislative (de) f, gesetzgebende Gewalt (de) f
• Japanese: 立法府 (ja) (りっぽうふ, rippofu)

• Jèrriais: législatuthe f
• Khmer: នីតិបញ្ញត្តិ (km) (ni teh panh nhat)
• Persian: مجلس (fa), پارلمان (fa)
• Romanian: corp legislativ (ro) n
• Russian: законодательная власть (ru) (zakonodátel’naja vlast’) f , законодательный орган (ru) (zakonodátel’nyj órgan) m 
• Ukrainian: законодавча влада (uk) (zakonodávča vláda) f 

References

• “legislature” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.

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Italian

Noun

legislature f

1. Plural form of legislatura