Where does “autôritai” come from?
autôritai (Bourguignon) comes from Old French autorité, from Latin auctōritās, from Latin auctor, from Latin augeō, from Proto-Italic augeō, from Proto-Indo-European h₂owg-éye-ti, from Proto-Indo-European h₂ewg-, from Proto-Indo-European h₂weg-.
autôritai (Bourguignon): authority
Definitions
- authority
Ancestry of “autôritai”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | autorité | authority |
| 2 | Latin | auctōritās | credibility, prestige, reputation, importance |
| 3 | Latin | auctor | seller, vendor; author; authorship, agency,... |
| 4 | Latin | augeō | to increase, augment, enlarge, spread, expand |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | augeō | to increase; to enlarge |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂owg-éye-ti | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂ewg- | to increase, to enlarge |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂weg- | to increase, to enlarge |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂ug- | — |