auctorité

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French autorité, with the c added back to reflect the original Latin etymon auctoritas, from which it was borrowed.

Noun

auctorité f (plural auctoritez)

1. authority
   • 15th century (date of publication), Rustichello da Pisa (original author), Mazarine Master (scribe), The Travels of Marco Polo, page 7, line 1:

     et estoit legat de grant auctorité

     and was a legat of great authority

Descendants

• French: autorité
  • → Romanian: autoritate

Old French

Noun

auctorité oblique singular, f (oblique plural auctoritez, nominative singular auctorité, nominative plural auctoritez)

1. Alternative form of autorité