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==English==

===Etymology===
Based on {{der|en|la|illegitimus}}; equivalent to {{af|en|in-|alt1=il-|legitimate}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{q|adjective|noun}}
** {{IPA|en|/ɪlɪˈd͡ʒɪtɪmət/}}
** {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-illegitimate.wav|a=Southern England}}
** {{IPA|en|[ɪlɨˈd͡ʒɪɾəmɨt]|a=GA}}
** {{IPA|en|/ɘlɘˈdʒɘtɘmɘt/|a=NZ}}

* {{q|verb}}
** {{IPA|en|/ɪlɪˈd͡ʒɪtɪmeɪt/}}
** {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-illegitimate (verb).wav|a=Southern England}}
** {{IPA|en|[ɪlɨˈd͡ʒɪɾəmeɪt]|a=GA}}
** {{IPA|en|/ɘlɘˈdʒɘtɘmeɪt/|a=NZ}}

===Adjective===
{{en-adj}}

# Not [[conform]]ing to known [[principle]]s, or [[establish]]ed or [[accept]]ed [[rule]]s or [[standard]]s.
#: {{syn|en|invalid}}
#: {{ant|en|valid}}
#* {{RQ:Wollstonecraft Vindication Women|page=38|passage={{...}} it may be impossible to convince them that the '''illegitimate''' power which they obtain, by degrading themselves, is a curse {{...}}}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1927|author=w:J. B. S. Haldane|chapter=Possible Worlds|title=Possible Worlds and Other Essays|location=London|publisher=Chatto and Windus|url=https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20160325/html.php
|passage=The so-called interstellar space {{...}} has not the properties of ordinary space. It will not conduct sound, nor can a human being move through it. It is therefore '''illegitimate''' to measure it in miles.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2009|author=w:J. M. Coetzee|title={{w|Summertime (novel)|Summertime}}|location=New York|publisher=Viking|chapter=Martin|page=209|url=https://archive.org/details/summertimefictio00coet
|passage=Our attitude was that, to put it briefly, our presence there [in South Africa] was legal but '''illegitimate'''. We had an abstract right to be there, a birthright, but the basis of that right was fraudulent. Our presence was grounded in a crime, namely colonial conquest, perpetuated by [[apartheid]].}}
# Not in [[accordance]] with the [[law]].
#: {{syn|en|illegal|illicit|unlawful}}
#: {{ant|en|legal}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1914|author=w:Theodore Dreiser|title={{w|The Titan (novel)|The Titan}}|location=New York|publisher=John Lane|chapter=54|page=475|url=https://archive.org/details/titan00dreiuoft/page/474
|passage={{...}} if things went on at this rate it would be doubtful soon whether ever again he would be able to win another election by  methods legitimate or '''illegitimate'''.}}
# Not [[sanction]]ed by [[marriage]].
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1783|author=w:Edward Gibbon|title=w:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire|location=London|publisher=W. Strahan and T. Cadell|volume=1|chapter=8|page=317|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004848826.0001.001
|passage=If we credit the scandal of the former [''i.e.'' his enemies], Artaxerxes sprang from the '''illegitimate''' commerce of a tanner’s wife with a common soldier.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1916|translator=w:Abraham Brill|title={{w|Leonardo da Vinci, A Memory of His Childhood|Leonardo da Vinci: A Psychosexual Study of an Infantile Reminiscence}}|location=New York|publisher=Moffat, Yard|chapter=6|page=118|url=https://archive.org/details/leonardodavincip00freu
|passage=His '''illegitimate''' birth deprived him of the influence of a father until perhaps his fifth year {{...}}}}
## Born to [[unmarried]] [[parent]]s.
##: {{syn|en|natural|Thesaurus:illegitimate}}
##: {{ux|en|an '''illegitimate''' child}}
##* {{RQ:Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida|V|7|text=I am a bastard begot, bastard instructed, bastard in mind, bastard in valour, in every thing '''illegitimate'''.}}
##* {{RQ:Dickens Oliver Twist|chapter=51|text=‘This child,’ said Mr. Brownlow, drawing Oliver to him, and laying his hand upon his head, ‘is your half-brother; the '''illegitimate''' son of your father {{...}}’}}
## {{lb|en|dated}} Having a child or children with a person to whom one is not married.
##* {{RQ:Eliot Daniel Deronda|chapter=27|text=She had only to collect her memories, which proved to her that “anybody” regarded the illegitimate children as more rightfully to be looked shy on and deprived of social advantages than '''illegitimate''' fathers.}}
##* {{quote-book|en|year=1935|author=w:Carolyn Wells|title=The Beautiful Derelict|location=New York|publisher=Triangle Books|chapter=13|page=222|url=https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20190338/html.php
|passage=I heard last night that a what-do-you-call it?—claimant?—has arrived who says Pat Wayne is his '''illegitimate''' father.}}
# Not correctly [[deduce]]d.
#: {{syn|en|illogical|invalid}}
#: {{ant|en|logical|valid}}
#: {{ux|en|an '''illegitimate''' inference}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1658|author=w:Kenelm Digby|title=A Late Discourse {{...}} Touching the Cure of Wounds by the Powder of Sympathy|location=London|publisher=R. Lownes and T. Davies|page=75|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A35976.0001.001
|passage={{...}} in natural things we must have recourse {{...}} to experience. And all reasoning that is not supported so, ought to be repudiated, or at least suspected to be '''illegitimate'''.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1734|author=w:George Berkeley|title=w:The Analyst|location=London|publisher=J. Tonson|section=Section 27, pp. 44-45|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004796094.0001.000
|passage={{...}} it is '''illegitimate''' to reduce an Equation, by subducting from one Side a Quantity when it is not to be destroyed, or when an equal Quantity is not subducted from the other Side of the Equation:}}
# Not authorized by good usage; not genuine.
#: {{syn|en|spurious}}
#: ''an '''illegitimate''' word''
# {{lb|en|botany}} Involving the [[fertilization]] of [[pistil]]s by [[stamen]]s not of their own length, in [[heterogonous]]ly [[dimorphic]] and [[trimorphic]] [[flower]]s.
#: '''''illegitimate''' union; '''illegitimate''' fertilization''
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1877|author=w:Charles Darwin|title=w:The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3807/3807-h/3807-h.htm|chapter=1
|passage={{...}} the legitimate unions between the two forms of the above nine species of Primula are much more fertile than the '''illegitimate''' unions; although in the latter case pollen was always taken from a distinct plant of the same form.}}

====Synonyms====
* See also [[Thesaurus:illegitimate]]

====Antonyms====
* {{l|en|legitimate}}

====Related terms====
{{col3|en
|illegit
|illegitimacy|illegitimate theatre
| illegitimate theater
|illegitimately
|illegitimateness
|illegitimation
|illegitimize
}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|not conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|epäkelpo}}, {{t+|fi|epäpätevä}}, {{t+|fi|kelvoton}}, {{t|fi|säännönvastainen}}, {{t+|fi|laiton}}
* Russian: {{t|ru|нелигитимный}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|against the law}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|ապօրինի}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|незаконен}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|il·legítim}}
* Danish: {{t|da|uretmæssig}}, {{t|da|uberettiget}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|illegaal}}, {{t+|nl|onrechtmatig}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|malrajta}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|laiton}}, {{t+|fi|lainvastainen}}
* French: {{t+|fr|illégitime}}
* Georgian: {{t|ka|არაკანონიერი}}, {{t|ka|უკანონო}}, {{t|ka|არალეგიტიმური}}
* German: {{t+|de|illegitim}}, {{t+|de|unrechtmäßig}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|παράνομος|m}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|illegale}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|違法|alt=違法な|tr=ihō na}}
* Latin: {{t|la|illegitimus}}
* Manx: {{t-check|gv|neuleighalagh}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|nielegalny}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|ilegal}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|ilegitim|m}}, {{t+|ro|nelegal|m}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|незако́нный}}, {{t+|ru|противозако́нный}}, {{t+|ru|нелега́льный}}, {{t+|ru|нелегити́мный}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|olaglig}}, {{t+|sv|illegal}}, {{t+|sv|illegitim}}, {{t+|sv|lagstridig}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|yolsuz}}, {{t+|tr|gayrimeşru}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|born to unmarried parents}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|ապօրինի}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|незаконно роден}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|il·legítim}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|nemanželský}}
* Danish: {{t|da|illegitim}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|nelegitima}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|avioton}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|νόθος}}
*: Ancient: {{t|grc|νόθος}}
* Irish: {{t|ga|neamhdhlisteanach}}, {{t|ga|tabhartha}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|illegittimo}}
* Japanese: {{t|ja|婚外|alt=婚外の|tr=kongai no}}, {{t+|ja|庶出|alt=庶出の|tr=shoshutsu no}}
* Latin: {{t|la|illegitimus}}, {{t|la|nothus}}, {{t|la|spurius|m}}
* Manx: {{t|gv|oainjyragh}}, {{t|gv|sooree}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|nieślubny|m}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|ilegítimo}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|незаконный}}, {{t+|ru|внебрачный}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|ilegítimo}}, {{t+|es|natural}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|oäkta}}, {{t+|sv|utomäktenskaplig}}, {{t+|sv|illegitim}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|gayrimeşru}}
* Vietnamese: {{t|vi|đẻ hoang}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|illogical}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|неправилен}}
* Danish: {{t|da|ulogisk}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|väärä}}, {{t+|fi|epälooginen}}, {{t+|fi|epäpätevä}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|not genuine; not authorized by good usage}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|väärä}}
* French: {{t+|fr|illégitime}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|illegittimo}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|偽|alt=偽の|tr=nise no}}, {{t+|ja|紛い|alt=紛いの|tr=magai no}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|ilegítimo}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|illegitim}}
{{trans-bottom}}

====Further reading====
* {{pedia}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun}}

# A person born to unmarried parents.
#: {{syn|en|natural child|lovechild|bastard}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1966|author=w:Jean Rhys|title=w:Wide Sargasso Sea|location=New York|publisher=Norton|section=Part 2, p. 96|url=https://archive.org/details/widesargassosea00rhys
|passage=Her father and mine was a shameless man and of all his '''illegitimates''' I am the most unfortunate and poverty stricken.}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|person born to unmarried parents}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|lehtolapsi}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|tama meamea}}, {{t|mi|raparere}}, {{t|mi|tīraumoko}}, {{t|mi|pōriro}}
* Spanish: {{t|es|[[hijo]] [[ilegítimo]]|m}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===Verb===
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|transitive}} To make illegitimate.

{{cln|en|heteronyms}}

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