omnipotent

See also: Omnipotent

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French omnipotent, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin omnipotēns (“almighty”), from omnis (“all”) + potēns (“mighty, powerful”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɒmˈnɪpətənt/
• Hyphenation: om‧nip‧o‧tent

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

omnipotent (comparative more omnipotent, superlative most omnipotent)

1. Having unlimited power, force or authority.
2. (biology) Describing a cell (especially a stem cell) that is capable of developing into any type of cell or forming any type of tissue (also called a totipotent cell). See also pluripotent.

Synonyms

• almighty
• all-powerful

Related terms

• omnipotence

Translations

having unlimited power, force or authority

• Arabic: عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ (ʕalā kulli šayʔin qadīrun)
• Armenian: ամենազոր (hy) (amenazor), ամենակարող (hy) (amenakaroġ)
• Catalan: omnipotent (ca)
• Chinese:

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• Czech: všemohoucí (cs), všemocný
• Dutch: almachtig (nl)
• Finnish: kaikkivoipa (fi), kaikkivaltias (fi)
• French: omnipotent (fr)

  Old French: omnipotent

• Georgian: ყოვლისშემძლე (q̇ovlisšemʒle), ყოვლადძლიერი (q̇ovladʒlieri)
• German: allmächtig (de)
• Greek: παντοδύναμος (el) m (pantodýnamos)

  Ancient: παντοκράτωρ (pantokrátōr)

• Hebrew: כל יכול
• Icelandic: almáttugur
• Indonesian: mahakuasa (id)
• Irish: uilechumhachtach
• Italian: onnipotente (it)
• Latin: omnipōtens
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• Macedonian: семоќен (semoḱen)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: allmektig (no)

  Nynorsk: allmektig

• Old English: ælmihtiġ
• Old Occitan: omnipotent
• Polish: wszechmocny (pl)
• Portuguese: omnipotente (pt), onipotente (pt) (Brazil)
• Romanian: omnipotent (ro), atotputernic (ro)
• Russian: всемогу́щий (ru) (vsemogúščij), всеси́льный (ru) (vsesílʹnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: свемогућ, свемоћан

  Latin: svemoguć (sh), svemoćan (sh)

• Spanish: omnipotente (es)
• Swedish: omnipotent (sv), allsmäktig (sv)
• Tagalog: kayanggawinlahat
• Telugu: సర్వ శక్తివంతుడు (sarva śaktivantuḍu)
• Ukrainian: всеси́льний m (vsesýlʹnyj), всемогу́тній m (vsemohútnij)
• Vietnamese: toàn năng (vi)
• Welsh: hollalluog (cy)

Noun

omnipotent (plural omnipotents)

1. An omnipotent being.

Further reading

• “omnipotent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “omnipotent”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “omnipotent”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin omnipotēns (“almighty”), from omnis (“all”) + potēns (“mighty, powerful”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [um.ni.puˈten]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [om.ni.poˈtent]

Adjective

omnipotent m or f (masculine and feminine plural omnipotents)

1. omnipotent

Related terms

• omnipotència

Further reading

• “omnipotent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “omnipotent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “omnipotent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “omnipotent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Danish

Adjective

omnipotent (neuter omnipotent, plural and definite singular attributive omnipotente)

1. omnipotent, almighty

Synonyms

• almægtig

Related terms

• omnipotens

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin omnipotēns (“almighty”), from omnis (“all”) + potēns (“mighty, powerful”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔm.ni.pɔ.tɑ̃/

• Audio:

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Adjective

omnipotent (feminine omnipotente, masculine plural omnipotents, feminine plural omnipotentes)

1. omnipotent

Further reading

• “omnipotent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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German

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin omnipotens.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɔmnipoˈtɛnt]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: om‧ni‧po‧tent

Adjective

omnipotent (not comparable)

1. omnipotent

Synonyms

• allmächtig

Related terms

• Omnipotenz

Further reading

• “omnipotent” in Duden online

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Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin omnipotēns (“almighty”), from omnis (“all”) + potēns (“mighty, powerful”).

Adjective

omnipotent m (oblique and nominative feminine singular omnipotent or omnipotente)

1. omnipotent
   • 13th century, Unknown, La Vie de Saint Laurent, page 13, column 2, line 30:

     car tu es Deu omnipotent

     because you are the omnipotent God

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin omnipotēns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌom.ni.poˈtent/
• Hyphenation: om‧ni‧po‧tent

Adjective

omnipotent m or n (feminine singular omnipotentă, masculine plural omnipotenți, feminine and neuter plural omnipotente)

1. omnipotent

Declension

Declension of omnipotent

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	omnipotent		omnipotentă	omnipotenți	omnipotente
	definite	omnipotentul		omnipotenta	omnipotenții	omnipotentele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	omnipotent		omnipotente	omnipotenți	omnipotente
	definite	omnipotentului		omnipotentei	omnipotenților	omnipotentilor

Synonyms

• atotputernic

Related terms

• omnipotență

References

• omnipotent in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)