agens

See also: Agens and ágens

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin agēns, present active participle of agere (“to drive, lead, conduct, manage, perform, do”). The plural agentes derives from the masculine/feminine Latin plural, whereas agentia represents the neuter Latin plural.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaː.ɣɛns/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: agens

Noun

agens m (plural agentes, no diminutive)

1. (grammar) agent, grammatical agent

Descendants

• → Indonesian: agens

Noun

agens n (plural agentia, no diminutive)

1. agent, effective cause

Coordinate terms

• patiens

Derived terms

• reagens

Anagrams

• genas, sagen

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch agens, from Latin agēns. Doublet of agen.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈaɡɛns/ [ˈa.ɡɛns]
• Rhymes: -aɡɛns
• Syllabification: a‧gens

Noun

agèns (plural agens-agens)

1. agent:
   1. (biology) an active power or cause or substance; something (e.g. biological, chemical, thermal, etc.) that has the power to produce an effect
   2. (linguistics, grammar) the participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation

      Synonym: pelaku

Alternative forms

• agen (biology, linguistics/grammar)
• agén (biology, chemistry, Standard Malay)

Related terms

• agen
• agensi

Further reading

• “agens”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of agō (“do, make”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.ɡẽːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.d͡ʒens]

Participle

agēns (genitive agentis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. doing, acting, making
   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 1.1.1:

     Et sī voluerīs attendere, maxima pars vītae ēlābitur male agentibus, magna nihil agentibus, tōtā vītā aliud agentibus.

     And if you wish to attend [to your moral improvement, remember this:] the greatest part of life slips away while [we are] behaving badly, much [of the time] in doing nothing, the whole of life by acting otherwise.
     (Note that Latin texts vary in the order of emphasis: “maxima...magna…tota” or “magna…maxima…tota”.)

2. driving

Declension

Third-declension participle.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	agēns			agentēs	agentia
genitive	agentis			agentium
dative	agentī			agentibus
accusative	agentem	agēns		agentēs agentīs	agentia
ablative	agente agentī1			agentibus
vocative	agēns			agentēs	agentia

¹When used purely as an adjective.

Descendants

• Catalan: agent
• Dalmatian: agent
• Dutch: agent
• English: agent
• French: agent
• Galician: axente
• Italian: agente
  • → Turkish: acente
• Portuguese: agente
• Romanian: agent
• Spanish: agente

References

• “agens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “agens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "agens", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “agens”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin agens. Doublet of agent. First attested in 1801.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡɛns/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aɡɛns
• Syllabification: a‧gens

Noun

agens m pers

1. (grammar) agent (doer of the verb)

   agens czasownika ― the agent of a verb

   agens czynności ― the agent of an action

Declension

Declension of agens

	singular	plural
nominative	agens	agensi/agensy (deprecative)
genitive	agensa	agensów
dative	agensowi	agensom
accusative	agensa	agensów
instrumental	agensem	agensami
locative	agensie	agensach
vocative	agensie	agensi

Related terms

adjectives

• agencyjny
• agenturalny
• agenturowy

adverbs

• agencyjnie
• agenturalnie

nouns

• agenciak
• agencik
• agencja
• agenda
• agendka
• agent
• agentka
• agentura
• agenturalność
• agenturka

Further reading

• agens in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Noun

agens

1. definite genitive singular of ag

Anagrams

• Agnes, anges, gasen