autorité

French

Etymology

From Old French autorité, borrowed from Latin auctoritas.

Pronunciation

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

• autorité:

  (file)

Noun

autorité f (plural autorités)

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

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 English: auctorite, autorite
  • English: authority
• Middle French: auctorité
  • French: autorité