Daily Ancestorægte
Ægte means "legitimate" in a Norwegian baptism entry: the child was born to parents married to each other. Uægte marks a child born outside marriage.
After 1814 the printed forms asked the priest to state whether each child was legitimate, and registers show it as ægte or uægte, or just e or u, in a column. Modern Norwegian spells the word ekte, and ægtefødt or ektefødt means born in wedlock.
What counted was the birth, not the conception: if the parents married between the birth and the baptism, the child was usually entered as legitimate. Latin entries may use legitimus or leg.
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Daily Ancestor. "ægte." Dictionary of Old Record Words. https://dailyancestor.com/dictionary/norwegian/aegte. Last checked 2026-10-28.