Where does “autorité” come from?
autorité (Old French) comes 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-, from Proto-Indo-European h₂ug-.
autorité (Old French): authority
Definitions
- authority
Ancestry of “autorité”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | auctōritās | credibility, prestige, reputation, importance |
| 2 | Latin | auctor | seller, vendor; author; authorship, agency,... |
| 3 | Latin | augeō | to increase, augment, enlarge, spread, expand |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | augeō | to increase; to enlarge |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂owg-éye-ti | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂ewg- | to increase, to enlarge |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂weg- | to increase, to enlarge |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂ug- | — |
Words derived from “autorité”
- authority
- authoritative
- authoritarian
- authoritarianism
- authoritatively
- authoritativeness
- antiauthoritarian
- nonauthoritative
- unauthoritative
- nonauthoritarian
- antiauthoritarianism
- antiauthority
- authoritarianly
- multiauthority
- inauthoritative
- authoritarianist
- autorité
- auctorité
- auctorite
- autôritai
- autoritaire
- autorytet
- lotorite
- otorite