plenipotent

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

plenipotent (comparative more plenipotent, superlative most plenipotent)

1. Possessing full power.
   • (Can we date this quote?), John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IX, 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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “plenipotent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plɛ.ɲiˈpɔ.tɛnt/

Noun

plenipotent m pers (female equivalent plenipotentka)

1. agent, attorney-in-fact

   Synonym: pełnomocnik

Declension

Declension of plenipotent

	singular	plural
nominative	plenipotent	plenipotenci/plenipotenty (deprecative)
genitive	plenipotenta	plenipotentów
dative	plenipotentowi	plenipotentom
accusative	plenipotenta	plenipotentów
instrumental	plenipotentem	plenipotentami
locative	plenipotencie	plenipotentach
vocative	plenipotencie	plenipotenci

Derived terms

• (noun) plenipotencja

Further reading

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