potence
English
noun
Definitions
- power or strength; potency
- A stud that acts as a support of a pivot in a watch or clock
- (heraldry)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French potence (a crutch, power) derived from Latin potentia (power, in etyl, ML).
Origin
Latin
potentia
Gloss
power, in etyl, ML
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
力
Emoji
🏋️ 💡
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- idem English
- idempotence English
- potency English
- potentia Latin
- potentialis Latin
- potentiālis Latin
- potēns Latin
- potenza Italian
- potere Italian
- potentie Dutch, Flemish
- potence French
- потенция Russian
- potencia Spanish, Castilian
- *h₁es- Proto-Indo-European
- potens Norwegian Bokmål
- potência Portuguese
- potens Swedish
- potens Norwegian Nynorsk
- potence Old French
- potență Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- putință Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan