legi-, -leg-, -ligi-, -lig-, -lect-, -lectic, -lection +

(Latin: read, readable [to choose words; to gather, to collect; to pick out; to read, to recite])

Closely related to lexi-, -lexia, -lexic, -lexis (Greek: a word; a saying, a phrase; speaking).


electoral
Relating to, or involving elections, electors, or voters.
electorally
1. Descriptive or, or relating to, elections; such as, they were electorally ready to vote.
2. Referring to electors or some election process.
electorate
All the officially qualified voters within a given country or area or for a given election.
electors
1. A college of electors.
2. People who have the right to make choices of public officers or those who have a right to vote.
elegance
1. A combination of graceful stylishness, distinction, and good taste in appearance, behavior, or movement.
2. A satisfying, or admirable, neatness, ingenious simplicity, or precision in something.
elegant
1. Stylishly graceful, and showing sophistication and good taste in appearance or behavior.
2. Satisfyingly and often ingeniously neat, simple, or concise.
3. Etymology: via French élégant, from Latin elegantem, elegans, “choice”; ultimately from, eligire, “to pick out, to select with care, to choose” (a source of English "elect").
elegantly
Descriptive of something which has been done with elegance, or in a tastefully elegant manner.
eligibility
1. Capability of being elected.
2. Meeting the necessary qualifications for being chosen.
eligible
1. Entitled or qualified to do, to be, or to get something.
2. Considered a good candidate for marriage.
3. Someone who, or something that, meets a set of requirements.
eligibleness
1. Capable of being chosen or elected.
2. Anyone who, or that which, satisfies appropriate conditions for some activity or situation.
elite
1. Belonging to an elite, especially in being more talented, privileged, or highly trained that the rest.
2. A group or class of people enjoying superior intellectual, social, or economic status.
3. A small group of people within a larger group who have more power, social standing, wealth, or talent than the rest of the group.
4. Etymology: from French élite, "selection, choice"; from Old French elire, elisre, "to pick out, to choose", from Latin eligere, "to choose".
Honestas et diligentia.
Honesty and diligence.

Motto of Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

idiolect
1. An individual person’s vocabulary and particular and unique way of using language.
2. The speech of an individual, considered as a linguistic pattern unique among speakers of his or her language or dialect.
illegible
Impossible or very difficult to read.
inelegance
Referring to the lack of refinement and good taste.

Related "word, words" units: etym-; lexico-; locu-; logo-; onomato-; -onym; verbo-.


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