# auctoritas
## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /au̯kˈtoː.ri.taːs/, [äu̯kˈt̪oːrɪt̪äːs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /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.
| Case | 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

### 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