different between legit vs legist

English

Etymology

Clipping of legitimate.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /l??d??t/

Noun

legit (plural legits)

1. (theater, slang) A legitimate; a legitimate actor. [from 19th c.]
2. (slang) A legitimate child. [from 20th c.]

Adjective

legit (comparative more legit, superlative most legit)

1. (informal) Legitimate; legal; allowed by the rules; valid. [from 20th c.]
2. (by extension, of a thing or person) Genuine, actual, literal or honest.
3. (slang) Genuinely good and possessing all the required or expected qualities; the real deal.

4. (slang) Cool by virtue of being genuine.

Translations

Adverb

legit (comparative more legit, superlative most legit)

1. (informal) Legitimately; within the law. [from 20th c.]
2. (slang) Honestly; truly; seriously.

Anagrams

• gilet

Latin

Verb

l?git

1. third-person singular perfect active indicative of l?g?

Verb

legit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of leg?

Old Norse

Participle

legit

1. strong neuter nominative/accusative singular of leginn

Verb

legit

1. supine of liggja

English

Etymology

From Middle French légiste, from Medieval Latin l?gista, from Latin lex (“law”). Compare legal.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?li?d??st/

Noun

legist (plural legists)

1. One skilled in the law.
   • 1484, William Caxton (translator), Aesop’s Fables, “The Wulf whiche made a fart” in The Fables of Aesop as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, edited by Joseph Jacobs, London: David Nutt, 1889, Volume II, p. 162,^[1]

     Item my fader was no legist ne never knew the lawes

     ne also man of Justyce

     and to gyve sentence of a plee

     I wold entremete me

     and fayned my self grete Justycer

     but I knewe neyther

     a

     ne

     b

   • 1933, H. G. Wells, The Shape of Things to Come, Book 3, Chapter 8,^[2]

     There were a number of lawyers of the older type, men in sharp contrast and antagonism to the younger legists of the new American school.

2. A writer on law, a legislator, a lawmaker
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 3:

     ‘King and kingdom,’ concurred d'Aguesseau, wisest of wise eighteenth-century legists, ‘form a single entity.’

Translations

Anagrams

• gilets, legits