potentia
See also: Potentia
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *potentiā.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /poˈten.ti.a/, [pɔˈt̪ɛn̪t̪iä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /poˈten.t͡si.a/, [poˈt̪ɛnt̪͡s̪iä]
Noun
potentia f (genitive potentiae); first declension
- force, power, might
- ability, capacity
- political power, authority, influence, sway
- supreme dominion, sovereignty
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.359-360:
- ‘haec est, cui fuerat prōmissa potentia rērum,
Iuppiter? hanc terrīs impositūrus erās?’- “Is this [that city] to which had been promised the sovereignty of the world, O Jupiter? Is this [that city] you were about to impose [as a ruler] upon nations?”
(Mars (mythology) is addressing Jupiter (mythology).)
- “Is this [that city] to which had been promised the sovereignty of the world, O Jupiter? Is this [that city] you were about to impose [as a ruler] upon nations?”
- ‘haec est, cui fuerat prōmissa potentia rērum,
- crutch, walking aid (Middle Latin only)
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | potentia | potentiae |
Genitive | potentiae | potentiārum |
Dative | potentiae | potentiīs |
Accusative | potentiam | potentiās |
Ablative | potentiā | potentiīs |
Vocative | potentia | potentiae |
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Participle
(deprecated template usage) potentia
References
- “potentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “potentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- potentia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- potentia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to acquire influence: opes, gratiam, potentiam consequi
- (ambiguous) oligarchy: paucorum dominatio or potentia
- to acquire influence: opes, gratiam, potentiam consequi
- “potentia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- potentia in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “potentia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- “potentia”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
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