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lex / leg- — Law

lex / leg- means law. Latin source words and legal terminology examples: legislation.

Meaning and source words

Meaning: Law

• Latin: lex legis

Examples and word parts

legislation

The process of making laws, or the laws made through that process.

Word parts: legis (of law) + latio (bringing or proposing)

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Related roots of public life terms

• jus / jur- — Right or law

  jurisprudence

• nom/o — Law or custom

  autonomy

• polit- — City or civic life

  political

• dem/o — People or citizen body

  democracy

• crat- / -cracy — Power or rule

  aristocracy

• arch- / -archy — Leadership or rule

  monarchy

• eth- / eth/o — Custom or character

  ethics

• amnest- — Forgetting or overlooking

  amnesty

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