autorité

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French autorité, borrowed from Latin auctoritātem.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio:

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Noun

autorité f (plural autorités)

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

Derived terms

• abus d’autorité
• argument d’autorité
• faire autorité
• figure d’autorité

 

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)

1. 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