potentia

== Latin == === Etymology === From potēns (“able, powerful”) + -ia (“abstract noun suffix”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pɔˈtɛn.ti.a] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [poˈtɛn.t͡si.a] === Noun === potentia f (genitive potentiae); first declension force, power, might ability, capacity political power, authority, influence, sway supreme dominion, sovereignty (Medieval Latin) crutch, walking aid ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Synonyms ==== potestas ==== Derived terms ==== potentiālis potentiāliter ==== Related terms ==== possum potēns potenter ==== Descendants ==== === Participle === potentia nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of potēns === References === “potentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “potentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "potentia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “potentia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “potentia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers potentia in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016 “potentia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly “potentia”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press