autorità

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Italian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin auctōritātem, derived from auctor.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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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], 2nd 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

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Further reading

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

Anagrams

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Noun

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autorità f (plural autoriteies)

  1. authority

Piedmontese

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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autorità f

  1. authority