authentic: [14] Etymologically, something that is authentic is something that has the authority of its original creator. Greek authentikós was a derivative of the noun authéntēs ‘doer, master’, which was formed from autós ‘self’ and the base -hentēs ‘worker, doer’ (related to Sanskrit sanoti ‘he gains’). The adjective’s original meaning in English was ‘authoritative’; the modern sense ‘genuine’ did not develop fully until the late 18th century. (Greek authéntēs, incidentally, was pronounced /afthendis/, and was borrowed into Turkish as efendī, source of English effendi [17].) => effendi
authentic (adj.)
mid-14c., "authoritative," from Old French autentique (13c., Modern French authentique) "authentic; canonical," and directly from Medieval Latin authenticus, from Greek authentikos "original, genuine, principal," from authentes "one acting on one's own authority," from autos "self" (see auto-) + hentes "doer, being," from PIE *sene- "to accomplish, achieve." Sense of "entitled to acceptance as factual" is first recorded mid-14c.
Traditionally in modern use, authentic implies that the contents of the thing in question correspond to the facts and are not fictitious; genuine implies that the reputed author is the real one; but this is not always maintained: "The distinction which the 18th c. apologists attempted to establish between genuine and authentic ... does not agree well with the etymology of the latter word, and is not now recognized" [OED].
雙語例句
1. I had obtained the authentic details about the birth of the organization.
我已經掌握了有關該組織誕生的可靠的詳細資料。
來自柯林斯例句
2. It is crucial that all documents presented are authentic and easily verifiable.
所有提交的文件必須真實且易于查證，這一點很關鍵。
來自柯林斯例句
3. They have to look authentic.
它們必須得看上去像真的。
來自柯林斯例句
4. I don't know if the painting is authentic.
我不知道這幅畫是不是真跡。
來自《權威詞典》
5. This is an authentic news report. We can depend on it.