legítimo
Portuguese, adjective
legítimo is spelled L-E-G-Í-T-I-M-O (8 letters) and appears 8.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 8,307th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Legítimo is a Portuguese adjective meaning “legitimate (all senses)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, legitimo is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of legitimar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “de acordo com a lei; legal”.
What does legítimo mean in English?
adjective
- 1
legitimate (all senses)
- 2
rightful
- 3
legal, lawful
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of legitimar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. de acordo com a lei; legal 2. de acordo com as regras, padrões e princípios estabelecidos 3. diz-se de criança nascida dentro de um casamento, de pais legalmente casados 4. de acordo com as leis da lógica e da razão
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 legítimo
- legítima feminine
- legítimos masculine plural
- legítimas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to legítimo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is legítimo in Portuguese?
legítimo appears 8.5 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).