Word Origin Summary

Auctorité is attested in French. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• otoritas

  Indonesian · derived from

• autoriti

  MSA · borrowed from

• オーソリティー

  Japanese · borrowed from

• auctorite

  Middle English · borrowed from

• autoriteit

  Dutch · derived from

• authority

  English · derived from

• otoritet

  Indonesian · derived from

• Authorität

  German · derived from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root