potencia

See also: potenciá, potència, and potência

Catalan

Verb

potencia

1. inflection of potenciar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Verb

potencia

1. inflection of potenciar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /poˈtenθja/ [poˈt̪ẽn̟.θja] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /poˈtensja/ [poˈt̪ẽn.sja] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -enθja (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• Rhymes: -ensja (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: po‧ten‧cia

Etymology 1

From Latin potentia.

Noun

potencia f (plural potencias)

1. power, potency
2. powerlifting

Antonyms

• impotencia

Derived terms

• en potencia
• pluripotencia (“pluripotency”)
• potencia intermedia
• tren de potencia

See also

• poder

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

potencia

1. inflection of potenciar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “potencia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025