authentic
English
/ɔ.ˈθɛn.tɪk/, /ɑ.ˈθɛn.tɪk/
adj
Definitions
- Of the same origin as claimed; genuine.
- Conforming to reality and therefore worthy of trust, reliance, or belief.
- (music) Having the final as the lowest note of the mode.
- (obsolete) authoritative
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English authentik derived from Old French autentique derived from Latin authenticus derived from Ancient Greek αὐθεντικός (principal, genuine, original), αὐθέντης (lord, master, who acts on one's own).
Origin
Ancient Greek
αὐθέντης
Gloss
lord, master, who acts on one's own
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
主
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- authentical English
- authentically English
- authenticalness English
- authenticatable English
- authenticate English
- authenticator English
- authenticism English
- authenticist English
- authenticity English
- authenticize English
- authenticly English
- authenticness English
- deauthenticate English
- hyperauthentic English
- inauthentic English
- inauthentically English
- inauthenticity English
- nonauthentic English
- nonauthenticity English
- reauthenticate English
- superauthentic English
- unauthentic English
- unauthentically English
- unauthenticity English
- authenticus Latin
- autentikus Hungarian
- autentico Italian
- authentique French
- auténtico Spanish, Castilian
- *ἕντης Ancient Greek
- αὐθέντης Ancient Greek
- αὐθεντικός Ancient Greek
- *senh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- autentisk Norwegian Bokmål
- autêntico Portuguese
- autenticitet Swedish
- autentisk Swedish
- autentisk Norwegian Nynorsk
- authentik Middle English
- autentický Czech
- autentique Old French
- autèntic Catalan, Valencian
- auténtico Galician
- αυθεντικός Greek (modern)
- αφέντη Greek (modern)
- αφέντης Greek (modern)
- autentijc Middle Dutch
- افندی Ottoman Turkish
- autentic Occitan
- authentical
- inauthentic
- authenticly
- unauthentic
- authenticism
- authenticist
- nonauthentic
- authenticity
- authenticate
- authenticize
- authenticness
- authenticator
- authentically
- hyperauthentic
- inauthenticity
- unauthenticity
- superauthentic
- reauthenticate
- deauthenticate
- unauthentically
- inauthentically
- authenticatable
- nonauthenticity
- authenticalness