potency

English

noun

Definitions

Strength
Power
The ability or capacity to perform something.

Etymology

Borrowed 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

biopotency English
bipotency English
equipotency English
immunopotency English
multipotency English
oligopotency English
prepotency English
subpotency English
superpotency English
unipotency 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