legitimize

English

Alternative forms

• legitimise

Etymology

legitimate +‎ -ize

Verb

1. (transitive) To make legitimate.

Usage notes

• Forms of legitimize are about twice as common as forms of the verb legitimate in the US.
• Forms of legitimate are somewhat more common than the forms of the verbs legitimize and legitimise in the UK combined.

Synonyms

• legitimate (verb)

Derived terms

• delegitimize
• illegitimatize
• illegitimize

Translations

to make legitimate

• Catalan: legitimar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 使合法 (zh) (shǐ héfǎ), 合法化 (zh) (héfǎhuà)

• Dutch: legitimeren (nl)
• Finnish: legitimoida
• French: légitimiser (fr)
• German: legitimieren (de)
• Italian: legittimare (it)
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• Japanese: 合法化する (ごうほうかする, gōhōka suru)
• Portuguese: legitimar (pt)
• Russian: легитими́ровать (ru) impf or pf (legitimírovatʹ), легитимизи́ровать (ru) impf or pf (legitimizírovatʹ), узако́нивать (ru) impf (uzakónivatʹ), узако́нить (ru) pf (uzakónitʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: legitimirati (sh), opravdati (sh)
• Spanish: legitimar (es)
• Swedish: legitimera (sv)
• Turkish: meşrulaştırmak (tr)