otoritas

• From earlier spelling otoritet, from Dutch autoriteit, from Middle Dutch auctoriteit, from Old French auctorité, from Latin auctoritas (“invention, advice, opinion, influence, command”), from auctor (“master, leader, author”).
• Current spelling is influenced by Latin auctoritas as *otor +‎ -itas.

• IPA^(key): [ɔtoˈritas]
• Hyphenation: oto‧ri‧tas

otoritas (first-person possessive otoritasku, second-person possessive otoritasmu, third-person possessive otoritasnya)

1. authority:
   1. power or right to make or enforce rules or give orders; or a position having such power or right.

      Synonym: wewenang

   2. a government-owned agency that runs an activity for public benefit.

• (government-owned agency): autoriti (Standard Malay)
• (government-owned agency): otorita
• (government-owned agency): otoritet

• “otoritas” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.