"authentical" meaning in English

See authentical in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more authentical [comparative], most authentical [superlative]
Etymology: From Classical Latin authenticus + -al. By surface analysis, authentic + -al. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|la-cla:authenticus|al}} Classical Latin authenticus + -al, {{surf|en|authentic|-al}} By surface analysis, authentic + -al Head templates: {{en-adj}} authentical (comparative more authentical, superlative most authentical)
  1. (archaic) Authentic. Tags: archaic Derived forms: authenticalness, unauthentical
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la-cla:authenticus",
        "3": "al"
      },
      "expansion": "Classical Latin authenticus + -al",
      "name": "suffix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "authentic",
        "3": "-al"
      },
      "expansion": "By surface analysis, authentic + -al",
      "name": "surf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Classical Latin authenticus + -al. By surface analysis, authentic + -al.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more authentical",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most authentical",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "authentical (comparative more authentical, superlative most authentical)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -al",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "authenticalness"
        },
        {
          "word": "unauthentical"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              74,
              85
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
          "text": "He graunted it: and streight his warrant made, / Under the Sea-gods seale autenticall[…].",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              53,
              65
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1603, Michel de Montaigne, “The History of Spurina”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 418:",
          "text": "The curious and exact care he had of his body, is an authenticall witneſſe of it, forſomuch as hee vſed the moſt laſcivious meanes that then were in vſe, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              63,
              74
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1609, Douay–Rheims Bible, title page:",
          "text": "The Holie Bible faithfully translated into English, out of the authentical Latin.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Authentic."
      ],
      "id": "en-authentical-en-adj-ugnr74xO",
      "links": [
        [
          "Authentic",
          "authentic"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) Authentic."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "authentical"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "authenticalness"
    },
    {
      "word": "unauthentical"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la-cla:authenticus",
        "3": "al"
      },
      "expansion": "Classical Latin authenticus + -al",
      "name": "suffix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "authentic",
        "3": "-al"
      },
      "expansion": "By surface analysis, authentic + -al",
      "name": "surf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Classical Latin authenticus + -al. By surface analysis, authentic + -al.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more authentical",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most authentical",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "authentical (comparative more authentical, superlative most authentical)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms derived from Classical Latin",
        "English terms suffixed with -al",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              74,
              85
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
          "text": "He graunted it: and streight his warrant made, / Under the Sea-gods seale autenticall[…].",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              53,
              65
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1603, Michel de Montaigne, “The History of Spurina”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 418:",
          "text": "The curious and exact care he had of his body, is an authenticall witneſſe of it, forſomuch as hee vſed the moſt laſcivious meanes that then were in vſe, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              63,
              74
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1609, Douay–Rheims Bible, title page:",
          "text": "The Holie Bible faithfully translated into English, out of the authentical Latin.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Authentic."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Authentic",
          "authentic"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) Authentic."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "authentical"
}

Download raw JSONL data for authentical meaning in English (2.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-01-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (d1270d2 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.