potency

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin potentia.

Noun

potency (countable and uncountable, plural potencies)

1. Strength
2. Power
3. The ability or capacity to perform something.

Related terms

• potence
• potent
• potentate
• potential
• potentiality

Translations

strength

• Bulgarian: сила (bg) f (sila)
• Finnish: voima (fi)
• Galician: potencia f

• Hebrew: כוח‎ (he) m (kóakh)
• Kazakh: пәрмен (kk) (pärmen)
• Polish: potencja (pl) f
• Romanian: potență (ro) f

power

• Bulgarian: мощ (bg) f (mošt), могъщество (bg) n (mogǎštestvo)
• Finnish: valta (fi)
• Galician: potencia f
• Greek:

  Ancient: δύναμις f (dúnamis)

• Hebrew: כוח‎ (he) (kóakh)
• Kazakh: құдірет (qudiret)
• Latin: potestās (la) f
• Polish: potencja (pl) f
• Romanian: potență (ro) f, putere (ro) f
• Ugaritic: 𐎓𐎇 (ʿz)

ability or capacity to perform

• Finnish: kyky (fi), potenssi (fi)
• Galician: potencia f
• Hebrew: יכולת‎ (he) f (yekhólet)
• Malay: potensi

• Polish: potencja (pl) f
• Romanian: putință (ro) f
• Spanish: potencia (es) f