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- Latin · borrowed fromlītigātus
- English todaylitigate
First attested in 1606; borrowed from Latin lītigātus, perfect passive participle of lītigō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from līs (“a lawsuit”, oblique stem in līt-) + -igō (denominative verb-forming suffix).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.