The story
- Latin · derived fromlēgātum
- Medieval Latin · derived fromlēgātia
- Old French · derived fromlegacie
- Middle English · inherited fromlegacie
- English todaylegacy
From Middle English legacie, from Old French legacie and Medieval Latin lēgātia, from Latin lēgātum. Compare legatee. The boardgame sense was coined by game designer Rob Daviau in 2011 with the game Risk Legacy.
Words from the same roots
Latinlēgātum all →
legate
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.