potence
French
noun
Definitions
- (construction) post and braces
- gallows, gibbet (for hanging)
- stem (component on a bicycle)
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
- potency English
- potentia Latin
- potentialis Latin
- potentiālis Latin
- potēns Latin
- potenza Italian
- potere Italian
- potentie Dutch, Flemish
- de French
- gibier French
- gibier de potence French
- multipotence French
- équipotence 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