legitimar
Portuguese, verb/le.ʒi.t͡ʃiˈma(ʁ)/
legitimar is spelled L-E-G-I-T-I-M-A-R (9 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 28,135th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Legitimar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to legitimize (make legitimate)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar legítimo”.
What does legitimar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to legitimize (make legitimate)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tornar legítimo 2. fazer reconhecer por autêntico um poder, um título etc. 3. justificar 4. conferir legitimidade a um filho natural por meio do casamento
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of legitimar
- legitimo first-person present singular
- legitimei first-person preterite singular
- legitimado participle past
- legitimares infinitive second-person singular
- legitimarmos first-person infinitive plural
- legitimardes infinitive plural second-person
- legitimarem infinitive plural third-person
- legitimando gerund
- legitimados masculine participle past
- legitimada feminine participle past
- legitimadas feminine participle past
- legitimas indicative present second-person
- legitima indicative present singular
- legitimamos first-person indicative plural
- legitimais indicative plural present
- legitimam indicative plural present
- legitimava first-person imperfect indicative
- legitimavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce legitimar?
- Brazil /le.ʒi.t͡ʃiˈma(ʁ)/
- Brazil [le.ʒi.t͡ʃiˈma(h)]
- /le.ʒi.t͡ʃiˈma(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to legitimar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is legitimar in Portuguese?
legitimar appears 1.3 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).