Autorisée

Autorisée is the feminine singular form of the French past participle autorisé, used as an adjective meaning permitted or authorized. It agrees with feminine nouns, for example une zone autorisée, une porte autorisée, or une utilisation autorisée. The masculine counterpart is autorisé, and the feminine plural is autorisées.

As a participle used adjectivally, autorisée appears in legal, administrative, and everyday contexts to indicate official permission granted by a competent authority. It can also appear in passive constructions, such as L’accès a été autorisé or L’accès est autorisé, to express that access has been or is allowed.

Usage notes and common contexts include signage or policies, where phrases like Accès autorisé or Utilisation autorisée signal that certain actions or areas are permissible. The term often appears alongside related concepts such as autorisation (permission) and autorité (authority). It is important to match the gender and number of the noun: for a masculine singular noun use autorisé (e.g., accès autorisé); for feminine singular use autorisée (e.g., zone autorisée); for masculine plural autorisés and for feminine plural autorisées.

Etymology: autorisée derives from the verb autoriser, which itself comes from the French formation with the suffix -iser, influenced by the noun autorité and the Latin roots related to auctoritas, meaning authority or author. Related terms include autorisation (the act of granting permission) and l’autorité (the authority or power to authorize).