authorize
English
/ˈɔθəɹaɪz/, /ˈɒθəɹaɪz/, /ˈɔːθəɹaɪz/
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) To grant (someone) the permission or power necessary to do (something).
- (transitive) To permit (something), to sanction or consent to (something).
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French auctorisier derived from Latin auctorizare, auctor (author, originator, agency, encouragement, vendor, authorship, seller).
Origin
Latin
auctor
Gloss
author, originator, agency, encouragement, vendor, authorship, seller
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- authorizable English
- authorization English
- authorizer English
- deauthorization English
- deauthorize English
- disauthorize English
- exauthorize English
- preauthorization English
- preauthorize English
- reauthorization English
- reauthorize English
- unauthorizable English
- unauthorize English
- auctor Latin
- auctoritas Latin
- auctorizare Latin
- auctorizo Latin
- auctorizāre Latin
- auctoro Latin
- auctrix Latin
- auctōrizāre Latin
- auctōrizō, auctōrizāre Latin
- auctōrāre, auctōrō Latin
- augeō Latin
- Autor German
- auteur French
- autoriser French
- autor Spanish, Castilian
- *h₂ewg- Proto-Indo-European
- auctorisier Old French
- autor Old French
- autor Catalan, Valencian
- autor Galician
- awdur Welsh
- áugtor Old Irish
- auteu Norman
- autor Old Portuguese
- autor Occitan
- autor Asturian
- autour xno
- autor Aragonese