illegitimate Copy link Outline I. Contrary to lawII. Tech. term in logic, not according to the rulesIII. Not born in lawful wedlock • illegitimate: I. Contrary to law: v. illegal. II. Tech. term in logic, not according to the rules: *haud lēgĭtĭmus, vĭtiōsus an il. process, *ratio haud legitima, modus disserendi s. ratiocinandi haud ad legem dialecticam accommodatus (cf. Sen. Ep. 82, 19): your conclusion is il., *vitiose istud concluditur. III. Not born in lawful wedlock: non lēgĭtĭmus: Quint. 3, 6, 103: for which the Gk. term nŏthus ([Greek: nothos]) was also used: cf. Quint. l. c. § 97, nothum, qui non sit legitimus, Graeci vocant: Latinam rei nomen non habemus, ideoque utimur peregrino. (Spurius denotes the offspring of a free-woman by an unacknowledged father: Dig. 1, 5, 23.)
ILLEGITIMATE Copy link • ILLEGITIMATEBastard, Vid: Add hibrida (PROP.; “mongrel;” also of a person born, e.g., of a Roman citizen and foreign woman or slave). Not legitimate, correct, etc., non legitimus (☞ Not illegitimus): *legi repugnans or contrarius. An illegitimate word, verbum insolens, durum, inusitatum, barbarum et obsoletum, etc.: an illegitimate inference, *vitiosa conclusio (after vitiose concludere, Cic.): *rationis parum apta conclusio (after Cic., ap. Quint., 9, 1, 28, rationis apta conclusio): *non or parum certa argumenti conclusio (after Quint., 5, 10, 2): to draw an illegitimate inference, vitiose concludere (opposed to recte concludere, Cic.). To make an illegitimate use of anything, aliqua re perverse abuti. Vid: ILLOGICAL.