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Latin
Etymology
From auctor (“seller, vendor, author; (figuratively) authorship, agency, encouragement”) + -tās.
Pronunciation
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.
Descendants
Further reading
- “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, 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