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legitimum

legitimum is a Latin form of legitimus, meaning “lawful, legitimate; proper, regular”. It is the genitive plural neuter adjective or genitive plural masculine adjective or accusative singular masculine adjective or nominative singular neuter adjective.

Found 48 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.81: huic homini parcetis igitur, iudices, cuius tanta peccata sunt ut ii quibus iniurias fecerit neque legitimum tempus exspectare ad ulciscendum neque vim tantam doloris in posterum differre potuerint? circumsessus es. A …

Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.282: Legitimum finem flamma virilis habet.

All forms of legitimus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.