legal

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See also: Legal, légal, and legâl

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lēgālis (“legal”), from lēx (“law”). Doublet of loyal and leal.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -iːɡəl
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  • Audio (US):(file)

Adjective

legal (comparative more legal, superlative most legal)

  1. Relating to the law or to lawyers.
    • 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
      According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
    legal profession
  2. Having its basis in the law.
    legal precedent
  3. Being allowed or prescribed by law.
    • 2013 August 23, “Waking life”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8850:
      After 50 years, legal segregation is a distant memory, and race in America is not the unbridgeable chasm it once was. The country has a black president. The sort of comity that King evoked, in which the descendants of slaves and of slave owners “sit down together at the table of brotherhood”, can be found in many places, including the Deep South. The rate of marriage between blacks and whites is rising.
    legal motion
  4. (informal) Above the age of consent or the legal drinking age.

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Noun

legal (countable and uncountable, plural legals)

  1. (uncountable, informal) The legal department of a company.
    Legal wants this in writing.
  2. (uncountable, US, Canada) Paper in sheets 8½ in × 14 in (215.9 mm × 355.6 mm).
  3. (countable) A spy who is attached to, and ostensibly employed by, an embassy, military outpost, etc.

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lēgālis. Compare the inherited doublet lleial.

Pronunciation

Adjective

legal m or f (masculine and feminine plural legals)

  1. legal
    Antonym: il·legal

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Further reading

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lēgālis (“legal”), from lēx (“law”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /leɡaːl/, [leˈɡ̊æːˀl]

Adjective

legal

  1. legal (something that conforms to or is according to law)
  2. legitimate (conforming to accepted rules)

Inflection

Inflection of legal
Positive Comparative Superlative
Indefinte common singular legal — —2
Indefinite neuter singular legalt — —2
Plural legale — —2
Definite attributive1 legale — —
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

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Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lēgālis. Compare leal.

Adjective

legal m or f (plural legais)

  1. legal (having its basis in the law)

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See also

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lēgālis (“legal”), from lēx (“law”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

legal (not comparable)

  1. legal

Declension

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Further reading

  • “legal” in Duden online

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lēgālis (“legal”), from lēx (“law”). Compare leal, an inherited doublet.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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  1. legal
  2. (Brazil, familiar) cool, nice, good

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:legal.

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French légal, Latin legalis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

legal m or n (feminine singular legală, masculine plural legali, feminine and neuter plural legale)

  1. legal, lawful

Declension

Declension of legal
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite legal legală legali legale
definite legalul legala legalii legalele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite legal legale legali legale
definite legalului legalei legalelor legalilor

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lēgālis, from lēx (“law”). Compare leal, an inherited doublet.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /leˈɡal/ [leˈɣ̞al]

Adjective

legal m or f (masculine and feminine plural legales)

  1. legal, statutory
    Antonym: ilegal
  2. lawful
  3. (colloquial) legit

Derived terms

Further reading

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin legalis.

Adjective

legal (not comparable)

  1. legal

Declension

Inflection of legal
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular legal — —
Neuter singular legalt — —
Plural legala — —
Masculine plural3 legale — —
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 legale — —
All legala — —
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic
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