legal

ca-adj

legal m or f (masculine and feminine plural legals)

Borrowed from Latin lēgālis. Compare the inherited doublet lleial.


legal

legal (something that conforms to or is according to law)

legitimate (conforming to accepted rules)

legal (positive)
legalt (positive)
legale (plural positive)
legale (positive)

Borrowed from Latin lēgālis (“legal”), from lēx (“law”).


legal

According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.

2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:

legal profession

legal precedent

After 50 years, legal segregation is a distant memory, and race in America is not the unbridgeable chasm it once was. The country has a black president. The sort of comity that King evoked, in which the descendants of slaves and of slave owners “sit down together at the table of brotherhood”, can be found in many places, including the Deep South. The rate of marriage between blacks and whites is rising.

2013 August 23, “Waking life”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8850:

legal motion

Being established, permitted, required or prescribed by law.

If you have no legal move, but are not in check the game is a draw.

Programming languages are designed so that each legal program has exactly one meaning

2021, John V. Guttag, Introduction to Computation and Programming Using Python, Third Edition, page 7:

Following the rules or syntax of a system, such as a game or a programming language.

"Is she even legal? Shame on you, diddlin' a girl too young to buy beer. You being a church deacon and all." If looks could kill, Dale would be dead.

2012 September 18, Sandra Brown, Low Pressure, Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN:

"Is she even legal? She looks like a minor." Elias whispers back, "Of course. I checked her passport. She's 20. What do you take me for? Be nice. I like her." I immediately smile at the girl behind Elias,[…]

2024 April 18, Ayin Quijano, Bottoms Up, Boracay (Season 2 Amihan), Ayin Quijano:

(informal) Above the age of consent or the legal drinking age.

Whether you're interested in opening a retail marijuana store in a legal state or if you're interested in investing in someone or a company, which is operating in a legal state, there are[…]

2016 January 30, Jasper Stohner, 101 Money Making Methods in the Marijuana Madness Movement of 2016, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 45:

[Because] marijuana is still a federally illegal drug, using the drug in a child's presence, even in a legal state, could thus be construed as child abuse.

2019 September 13, Tracy Ferrell, Migrating for Medical Marijuana: Pioneers in a New Frontier of Treatment, McFarland, →ISBN, page 160:

Permitting the use and/or sale of cannabis; in which cannabis is lawful.

(US, Canada) (of paper or document layouts) Measuring 8½ in × 14 in (215.9 mm × 355.6 mm) (also legal-size).

en-adj

legal (comparative more legal, superlative most legal)

more legal (comparative)
most legal (superlative)

Borrowed from Latin lēgālis (“legal”), from lēx (“law”). Doublet of loyal and leal.


legal

Legal wants this in writing.

(uncountable, informal) The legal department of a company.

(uncountable, US, Canada) Paper in sheets 8½ in × 14 in (215.9 mm × 355.6 mm).

(countable) A spy who is attached to, and ostensibly employed by, an embassy, military outpost, etc.

(countable, informal, US) Somebody who immigrated lawfully.

en-noun

legal (countable and uncountable, plural legals)


legal

Learned borrowing from Latin lēgālis. Compare leal.


legal

de-adj

legal (strong nominative masculine singular legaler, not comparable)

legaler (masculine nominative singular strong)
legal (masculine predicative singular)
legal (feminine predicative singular)
legal (neuter predicative singular)
legal (plural predicative)
legaler (masculine nominative singular strong without-article)
legale (feminine nominative singular strong without-article)
legales (neuter nominative singular strong without-article)
legale (nominative plural strong without-article)
legalen (genitive masculine singular strong without-article)
legaler (feminine genitive singular strong without-article)
legalen (genitive neuter singular strong without-article)
legaler (genitive plural strong without-article)
legalem (dative masculine singular strong without-article)
legaler (dative feminine singular strong without-article)
legalem (dative neuter singular strong without-article)
legalen (dative plural strong without-article)
legalen (accusative masculine singular strong without-article)
legale (accusative feminine singular strong without-article)
legales (accusative neuter singular strong without-article)
legale (accusative plural strong without-article)
der legale (definite includes-article masculine nominative singular weak)
die legale (definite feminine includes-article nominative singular weak)
das legale (definite includes-article neuter nominative singular weak)
die legalen (definite includes-article nominative plural weak)
des legalen (definite genitive includes-article masculine singular weak)
der legalen (definite feminine genitive includes-article singular weak)
des legalen (definite genitive includes-article neuter singular weak)
der legalen (definite genitive includes-article plural weak)
dem legalen (dative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
der legalen (dative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
dem legalen (dative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
den legalen (dative definite includes-article plural weak)
den legalen (accusative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
die legale (accusative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
das legale (accusative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
die legalen (accusative definite includes-article plural weak)
ein legaler (includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular)
eine legale (feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular)
ein legales (includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular)
legalen (indefinite mixed nominative plural)
keine legalen (includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural)
eines legalen (genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer legalen (feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
eines legalen (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
legalen (genitive indefinite mixed plural)
keiner legalen (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einem legalen (dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer legalen (dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
einem legalen (dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
legalen (dative indefinite mixed plural)
keinen legalen (dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einen legalen (accusative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
eine legale (accusative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
ein legales (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
legalen (accusative indefinite mixed plural)
keine legalen (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)


legal

Borrowed from Dutch legaal (“legal”), from French légal, from Latin lēgālis. Doublet of loyal.


legal

pt-adj

legal m or f (plural legais, comparable, comparative mais legal, superlative o mais legal or legalíssimo)

legais (plural)
mais legal (comparative)
o mais legal (superlative)
legalíssimo (superlative)

Borrowed from Latin lēgālis (“legal”), from lēx (“law”). Doublet of leal, inherited from the same source.


legal

ro-adj

legal m or n (feminine singular legală, masculine plural legali, feminine and neuter plural legale)

legală (feminine singular)
legali (masculine plural)
legale (feminine neuter plural)
legal (indefinite masculine neuter singular)
legală (feminine indefinite singular)
legali (indefinite masculine plural)
legale (feminine indefinite neuter plural)
legalul (definite masculine neuter singular)
legala (definite feminine singular)
legalii (definite masculine plural)
legalele (definite feminine neuter plural)
legale (feminine indefinite singular)
legalului (definite masculine neuter singular)
legalei (definite feminine singular)
legalelor (definite masculine plural)
legalilor (definite feminine neuter plural)

Borrowed from French légal, Latin legalis. By surface analysis, lege + -al. Doublet of loial.


legal

es-adj

legal m or f (masculine and feminine plural legales)

Borrowed from Latin lēgālis, from lēx (“law”). Compare leal, an inherited doublet.


legal

legal (indefinite positive)
legalt (indefinite neuter positive singular)
legala (indefinite plural positive)
legale (archaic indefinite masculine plural positive)
legale (definite masculine positive singular)
legala (definite positive)


legal

Borrowed from Spanish legal, from Latin lēgālis. Doublet of leal.


legal

legal (being allowed or prescribed by law)

Borrowed from French légal, from Latin lēgālis.