autorité

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French autorité, borrowed from Latin auctoritātem.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /o.tɔ.ʁi.te/, /ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.te/
autorité (file)

Noun

autorité f (plural autorités)

authority (the power to enforce rules or give orders)
authority (entity with power)

Derived terms

Related terms

autoriser

Further reading

“autorité”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

tutoiera

Old French

Alternative forms

auctorité

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin auctōritās.

Noun

autorité oblique singular, f (oblique plural autoritez, nominative singular autorité, nominative plural autoritez)

authority

Descendants

→ Middle Dutch: auctoriteit
- Dutch: autoriteit
  - → Indonesian: otoritet → otoritas
Middle French: auctorité
- French: autorité
  - → Romanian: autoritate
→ Middle English: auctorite, auctoritee, auctoryte, autorite, autoritee, autoryte, awtorite, outorytye
- English: authority
- Scots: authority, authoritie

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