auctoritas

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Etymology

From auctor (“seller, vendor, author; (figuratively) authorship, agency, encouragement”) +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /au̯kˈtoː.ri.taːs/, [äu̯kˈt̪oːrɪt̪äːs̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /au̯kˈto.ri.tas/, [äu̯kˈt̪ɔːrit̪äs]

Noun

auctōritās f (genitive auctōritātis); third declension

credibility, prestige, reputation, importance
influence, weight, personal weight
power, ability, authority
Synonyms: dicio, imperium, arbitrium
advice, counsel (when offered by someone with credibility and strong influence)
support, backing
warrant, authenticity (something that provides assurance or confirmation)
sanction, political sanction, warrant
power conferred, will, decree, order, rights, command (often refers to the will or decree of the senate)
responsibility, opinion, judgment
legal title
influential person

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	auctōritās	auctōritātēs
genitive	auctōritātis	auctōritātum
dative	auctōritātī	auctōritātibus
accusative	auctōritātem	auctōritātēs
ablative	auctōritāte	auctōritātibus
vocative	auctōritās	auctōritātēs

Descendants

Catalan: autoritat
Galician: autoridade
Italian: autorità
Old French: autorité
- → 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
Portuguese: autoridade
Spanish: autoridad
→ German: Autorität
- → Polish: autorytet
  - → Ukrainian: авторитет (avtorytet)
→ Old Irish: augtortas
- Middle Irish: augtardas
  - Irish: údarás
→ Proto-Brythonic: *audʉrdọd
- Middle Welsh: awdurdawt
  - Welsh: awdurdod

“auctoritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“auctoritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
auctoritas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
auctoritas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to possess great authority; to be an influential person: magna auctoritate esse
- to possess great authority; to be an influential person: auctoritate valere or florere
- to possess great authority; to be an influential person: magna auctoritas est in aliquo
- to have great influence with a person; to have considerable weight: multum auctoritate valere, posse apud aliquem
- to have great influence with a person; to have considerable weight: magna auctoritas alicuius est apud aliquem
- to have great influence with a person; to have considerable weight: alicuius auctoritas multum valet apud aliquem
- to gain dignity; to make oneself a person of consequence: auctoritatem or dignitatem sibi conciliare, parare
- to attain to the highest eminence: ad summam auctoritatem pervenire
- to increase a person's dignity: auctoritatem alicuius amplificare (opp. imminuere, minuere)
- to insult a person's dignity: auctoritati, dignitati alicuius illudere
- to be guided by another's example: auctoritatem alicuius sequi
- standard and pattern: auctoritas et exemplum (Balb. 13. 31)
- to have great influence: opibus, gratia, auctoritate valere, florere
- the opinion of the senate in general: senatus auctoritas
“auctoritas”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“auctoritas”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin