authentique French · revision 15805

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1211|origins=grc αὐθέντης}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ɔ.tɑ̃.tik/^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA: /o.tɑ̃.tik/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''authentique''' (plural authentiques)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|la-lat|authenticus|t=original, correctly attributed (of a text)]],^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(FEW|25, 1090a) whose neuter “authenticum” meant a legal deed that is binding.^(DHLF 1992) The Latin word is from [[grc|αὐθεντικός|tr=authentikós|t=of unquestionable authority]], from [[m|grc|αὐθέντης|tr=authéntēs|t=one who acts on his own authority; perpetrator]],^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Wiktionary) a compound of [[m|grc|αὐτός|tr=autós|t=self]] and an element meaning “who achieves”.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ The spelling “auctentique” (1403) is probably due to confusion with [[la|auctōritās]].^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It first appears in law in 1211 as ''autentique'', and Bloch and Wartburg note a 12th-century ''autentike'';^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) Beaumanoir writes of a seal that is ''autentiques'', legally valid.^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In the 13th century it also served as a noun, a binding deed.^(DHLF 1992) From 1403 it was used of persons of recognised and legitimate authority (Froissart's ''un bourgeois notable et authentique''),^(DHLF 1992)^(Littré 1873) then of things that are true and beyond doubt, its usual classical and modern sense.^(DHLF 1992) The sense “sincere, natural, unaffected” is recent, found in Gide in 1923.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ In sacred music the ''modes authentiques'' (1751, ''Encyclopédie'') come from medieval Latin usage.^(DHLF 1992) In African French, ''authenticité'' became the name of Mobutu's doctrine of African values (1971).^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1211 – ''Autentique'', a legal term.^(Grand Robert 2005)

+ * c. 1283 – Beaumanoir's ''seaus autentiques''.^(Littré 1873)

+ * 1403 – ''Auctentique'', of persons with authority.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1557 – The noun ''authentiquité''.^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * 1751 – ''Modes authentiques'' in music.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1860 – ''Authentifier'' in the Goncourts.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1923 – “Sincere” in Gide.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # ''(law)'' Of a deed, drawn up by a public officer with the required formalities: ''acte authentique''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Le Robert)

+ # [[m|en|genuine|alt=Genuine]], truly by the author it is attributed to: ''un Rembrandt authentique''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse)

+ # True, certain, whose reality cannot be questioned: ''histoire authentique''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse)

+ # [[m|en|sincere|alt=Sincere]], natural, unaffected: ''une passion authentique''.^(Larousse)^(DHLF 1992)

+ # ''(music)'' Of a church mode, [[m|en|authentic]].^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[authenticité]]

+ * [[authentiquer]]

+ * [[authentiquement]]

+ * [[authentifier]]

+ * [[authentification]]

+ * [[inauthentique]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[grc|αὐθέντης|tr=authéntēs]]

+ * [[en|authentic]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}