legislate

English

Etymology

Back-formation from legislation, legislator.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛdʒɪsˌleɪt/

Verb

legislate (third-person singular simple present legislat, present participle ing, simple past and past participle legislated)

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

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

Derived terms

• legislation
• legislative
• legislator
• legislature

 

Translations

pass laws

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: legislar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 立法 (zh) (lìfǎ)

• Czech: please add this translation if you can
• Danish: lovgive
• Dutch: wetten maken
• Finnish: säätää laki
• French: légiférer (fr)
• German: Gesetze geben
• Greek: νομοθετώ (el) (nomothetó)
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• Hungarian: törvényt hoz
• Irish: reachtaigh, achtaigh

  Old Irish: rechtaigid

• Italian: legiferare (it)
• Japanese: 制定する
• Latin: legis ferre
• Persian: قانون گذاری
• Portuguese: legislar (pt)
• Russian: издава́ть зако́ны (izdavátʹ zakóny), законода́тельствовать (ru) (zakonodátelʹstvovatʹ)
• Spanish: legislar (es)
• Swedish: lagstifta (sv)