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Latin Posse Present Participle Potent English Potis Powerful

正面 6381.potent
英 ['pəʊt(ə)nt]美 ['potnt]

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释义:
adj. 有效的;强有力的,有权势的;有说服力的
例句:
1. Alcohol is a potent drug that anaesthetizes the brain.酒精是一种能麻醉大脑的烈性药物。

1. 共同的送出去. MIT 麻省理工学院.
potent 有权的,强大的,有力的来自拉丁语potentem,有权的,强大的,有力的,来自*potere,使有权力,赋予力量,来自potis,有力的,有力量的,来自PIE*potis,主人,师傅,大师,丈夫,词源同possible,power.
potentpotent: [15] Latin posse (source of English posse and possible) meant ‘be able or powerful’. It was a conflation of an earlier verbal phrase potis esse ‘be able’. The precursor of posse was Old Latin *potēre, whose present participle potēns survived to become the present participle of posse. And its stem form potent- has given English potent, potentate [14], and potential [14]. Power also comes from *potēre.=> posse, possible, potentate, potential, powerpotent (adj.)early 15c., from Latin potentem (nominative potens) "powerful," present participle of *potere "be powerful," from potis "powerful, able, capable; possible;" of persons, "better, preferable; chief, principal; strongest, foremost," from PIE root *poti- "powerful, lord" (cognates: Sanskrit patih "master, husband," Greek posis, Lithuanian patis "husband"). Meaning "having sexual power" is first recorded 1899."

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