The story
- Latin · derived fromligō“tie, bind”
- Italian · borrowed fromlegato
- English todaylegato
Borrowed from Italian legato, past participle of legare (“to tie up, tie together, to bind”), learned borrowing from Latin ligō (“tie, bind”). Doublet of ligate.
Words from the same roots
Latinligō all →
leagueliableligationneuroligin
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.