legislate

English

Etymology

Back-formation from legislation, legislator.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛd͡ʒɪsˌleɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Verb

legislate (third-person singular simple present legislates, present participle legislating, simple past and past participle legislated)

1. To pass laws (including the amending or repeal of existing laws).

   Synonym: (rare) lawmake

   If they can't get people to do the right thing by talking then they will try to legislate and enforce the statutes.

   Candidates always promise to legislate change.

Derived terms

• colegislate
• delegislate
• legislation
• legislative
• legislator
• legislature
• overlegislate
• relegislate
• unlegislate

Translations

pass laws

• Arabic: شَرَّعَ (ar) (šarraʕa)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: издавам закони (izdavam zakoni)
• Catalan: legislar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 立法 (zh) (lìfǎ)

• Czech: please add this translation if you can
• Danish: lovgive
• Dutch: wetten maken
• Esperanto: leĝdoni
• Finnish: säätää laki
• French: légiférer (fr)
• Galician: lexislar (gl)
• German: Gesetze geben, Gesetze beschließen, Gesetze verordnen, Gesetze erlassen, legiferieren (rare)
• Greek: νομοθετώ (el) (nomothetó)

  Ancient Greek: νομοθετέω (nomothetéō)

• Hungarian: törvényt hoz
• Irish: reachtaigh, achtaigh

  Old Irish: rechtaigid

• Italian: legiferare (it)
• Japanese: 制定する (せいていする, seitei suru)
• Kazakh: заң шығару (zañ şyğaru)
• Latin: lēgem ferre
• Persian: قانون‌گذاری کردن (qânun-gozâri kardan)
• Portuguese: legislar (pt)
• Russian: издава́ть зако́ны (izdavátʹ zakóny), законода́тельствовать (ru) (zakonodátelʹstvovatʹ)
• Spanish: legislar (es)
• Swedish: lagstifta (sv)
• Uzbek: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: lập pháp (vi)

Spanish

Verb

legislate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of legislar combined with te