Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 1416.potēns on page 1416
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potēns able
potēns is a Latin Adjective that primarily means able.
Definitions for potēns
Wheelock's Latin
Adjective
- 1
able, powerful, mighty, strong
- 2
pres. part of possum as an adj.
English derivatives:
potent impotent omnipotent potentate potential
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Adjective
- 1
Endowed, provided (with possessions, etc.). (b) having got possession (of something striven after).
- 2
Having or exercising power (over); sui potens, one's own master. (b) able to control (oneself, one's emotions, etc.).
- 3
Capable (of). (b) having exceptional ability, capable.
- 4
Having (political, military, social, etc.) power, influential, powerful. (b) (of gods) powerful, mighty. (c) (masc. as sb.) an influential person.
- 5
(of physical forces, etc.) Powerful, strong (w. gen.) powerful enough (for).
Sentences with potēns
Latin to English
Tyrannus potēns patriam eōrum vī celerī vincet.Compare The powerful tyrant will conquer their country with swift violence.
Ab amīcīs potentibus adiuvābimur.Compare We shall be helped by powerful friends.
Quis est vir fēlīcissimus? Is quī vītam sapientissimam agit fēlīcior est quam tyrannnus potentissimus.Compare Who is the happiest man? He who leads the wisest life is happier than the most powerful tyrant.
Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici: expertus metuit.Compare Making up to a powerful friend seems a pleasant thing to those who have not tried: who has tried will dread it.
Ille potens sui laetusque deget, cui licet in diem dixisse "vixi: cras vel atra nube polum pater occupato vel sole puro; non tamen irritum, quodcumque retro est, efficiet, neque diffinget infectumque reddet, quod fugies semel hora vixit."Compare He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Sire may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine; he will not undo aught that is left behind me, nor change or make as though it had not been aught that the hour, fast as it flies, has once brought."
Saepe rogare soles qualis sim, Prisce, futurus, si fiam locuples simque repente potens.Compare You are often wont to ask me what sort of person I should be, Priscus, if I become rich and were suddenly powerful.
Pax optima rerum, quas homini novisse datum est; pas una triumphis innumeris potior; pax, custodire salutem at cives aequare potens.Compare Peace is the best thing that men may know; peace is better than a thousand triumphs; peace has power to guard our lives and secure equality among fellow citizens.
Declension table for potēns
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | potēns | potentēs |
| Gen. | potentis | potentum |
| Dat. | potentī | potentibus |
| Acc. | potentem | potentēs |
| Abl. | potente | potentibus |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 107.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1416.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 123.
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Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "potēns, potentis (adj.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/potens-potentis.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 107.potēns, potentis on page 107
