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 it, then they can try to enforce the statutes.

Derived terms

• colegislate
• legislation
• legislative
• legislator
• legislature

 

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: 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