Where does “auctorite” come from?
auctorite (Middle English) 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-.
auctorite (Middle English): Legal authority or control; the privilege of...
Definitions
- Legal authority or control; the privilege of...
Ancestry of “auctorite”, 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- | — |
Words derived from “auctorite”
- authority
- authoritative
- authoritarian
- authoritarianism
- authoritatively
- authoritativeness
- antiauthoritarian
- nonauthoritative
- unauthoritative
- nonauthoritarian
- antiauthoritarianism
- antiauthority
- authoritarianly
- multiauthority
- inauthoritative
- authoritarianist
- authorityless
- オーソリティー
- atoriti
- Authorität
- authorities
- awtorita
- authoritywise
- aŭtoritato