potestas

== Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *potistāts. Equivalent to potis + -tās. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pɔˈtɛs.taːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [poˈtɛs.tas] === Noun === potestās f (genitive potestātis); third declension power, ability mastery, control authority, jurisdiction dominion, political power Synonyms: dicio, imperium, arbitrium, auctōritās, regimen, regimentum, ductus right, legal power (of a word) meaning possibility, opportunity ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Italian: potestà ⇒ Italian: podestà→ English: podesta Old French: poesté, podestet, pousté (La Vie de Saint Alexis, 11th century manuscripts, Anglo-Norman, respectively)→ Middle English: pouste, pousty, powste, poweste, puste, poste, pooste, poostye, pausteEnglish: poustieScots: poustieYola: poustee → Albanian: pushtet → Catalan: potestat → Portuguese: potestade, podestade Sicilian: putistà, putistati → Spanish: potestad ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *potestāre Italian: podestare Old French: poëster → Albanian: pushtoj, poshtroj, pështroj — dialectal === References === “potestas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “potestas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "potestas", 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) “potestas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “potestas”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers potestas in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016 “potestas”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin