autorità

See also: autorita

Italian

Alternative forms

• autoritade (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin auctōritātem, derived from auctor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aw.to.riˈta/^*
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: au‧to‧ri‧tà

Noun

autorità f (invariable)

1. (uncountable) authority (power to enforce rules or give orders)
2. (in the plural) authorities (bodies that have power and control in a particular sphere)
3. extended meanings:
4. (by extension) prestige, influence
   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto IV”, in Inferno [Hell]‎^[1], lines 112–114; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎^[2], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Genti v'eran con occhi tardi e gravi,
     di grande autorità ne' lor sembianti:
     parlavan rado, con voci soavi.

     People were there with solemn eyes and slow, of great authority in their countenance; they spake but seldom, and with gentle voices.

5. (by extension) an authoritative testimony or claim
6. (by extension) an influential example
7. (rare) a quote from a literary work
8. authority (person accepted as a source of reliable information on a subject)

Derived terms

• autoritario

Related terms

• autorevole
• autoritarismo
• autorizzare

Further reading

• autorità in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• attuario

Ladin

Noun

autorità f (plural autoriteies)

1. authority

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /awturiˈta/

Noun

autorità f

1. authority