potency

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin potentia. Doublet of Potenza.

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)
• Hungarian: erő (hu)

• Kazakh: пәрмен (kk) (pärmen)
• Polish: potencja (pl) f
• Romanian: potență (ro) f
• Yakut: күүс (küüs)

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