plenipotent

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin plenus (full) + potens, potentis (potent).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /pliːˈnɪpətənt/

Adjective[edit]

plenipotent (comparative more plenipotent, superlative most plenipotent)

  1. Having full power.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. [], London: [] [Samuel Simmons], [], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: [], London: Basil Montagu Pickering [], 1873, →OCLC, line 400:
      My Substitutes I send ye, and Create
      Plenipotent on Earth, of matchless might
      Issuing from mee: on your joynt vigor now
      My hold of this new Kingdom all depends,
      Through Sin to Death expos’d by my exploit.

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Polish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /plɛ.ɲiˈpɔ.tɛnt/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔtɛnt
  • Syllabification: ple‧ni‧po‧tent

Noun[edit]

plenipotent m pers (female equivalent plenipotentka)

  1. agent, attorney-in-fact
    Synonym: pełnomocnik

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noun

Further reading[edit]

  • plenipotent in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • plenipotent in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin plenipotens.

Adjective[edit]

plenipotent m or n (feminine singular plenipotentă, masculine plural plenipotenți, feminine and neuter plural plenipotente)

  1. plenipotentiary

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Noun[edit]

plenipotent m (plural plenipotenți)

  1. plenipotentiary

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