autorizado

/autoɾiˈθado/ · B1 · adj

authorized

✅ autorizado = author + -ized: the author's okay makes it official

From Latin auctor, author or source of authority. Autorizar means to give the author's permission, so autorizado is what has been signed off. The same root gives autoridad (authority), hence the meaning authoritative, as in una fuente autorizada.

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