autoridad
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin auctōritātem.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /autoɾiˈdad/ [au̯.t̪o.ɾiˈð̞að̞]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -ad
- Syllabification: au‧to‧ri‧dad
Noun
[edit]autoridad f (plural autoridades)
- (uncountable) authority (the power to enforce rules or give orders)
- (countable) authority (persons in command)
- 2025 January 2, Alaa Elassar, “El conductor del Tesla Cybertruck se disparó antes de la explosión, dice la policía”, in CNN en Español[1]:
- Las autoridades no están identificando a Livelsberger como la persona encontrada dentro del Cybertruck porque el cuerpo encontrado dentro del vehículo estaba quemado hasta quedar irreconocible, dijo el sheriff de Las Vegas, Kevin McMahill, en una conferencia de prensa este jueves.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (countable) authority (a person accepted as a source of reliable information on a subject)
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “autoridad”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
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