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

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): /au̯kˈtoː.ri.taːs/,[äu̯kˈt̪oːrɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): /au̯kˈto.ri.tas/,[äu̯kˈt̪ɔːrit̪äs]

auctōritās f (genitiveauctōritātis);third declension

1. credibility,prestige,reputation,importance
2. influence,weight,personalweight
3. power,ability,authority

   Synonyms:dicio,imperium,arbitrium

4. advice,counsel(when offered by someone with credibility and strong influence)
5. support,backing
6. warrant,authenticity(something that provides assurance or confirmation)
7. sanction, politicalsanction,warrant
8. power conferred,will,decree,order,rights,command(often refers to thewill or decree of the senate)
9. responsibility,opinion,judgment
10. legaltitle
11. influentialperson

Third-declension noun.

• “auctoritas”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “auctoritas”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "auctoritas", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• auctoritas inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], 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 orflorere
    
  • 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 ordignitatem 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”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “auctoritas”, inWilliam Smith et al., editor (1890),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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