plenipotent

English

Etymology

From Latin plenus (“full”) + potens, potentis (“potent”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pliːˈnɪpətənt/

Adjective

plenipotent (comparative more plenipotent, superlative most plenipotent)

1. Having full power.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book CCLXX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, line 404:

     My Substitutes I send ye, and Create
     Plenipotent on Earth, of matchless might
     Issuing from mee: on your joynt vigor now
     My hold of this new Kingdom all depends,
     Through Sin to Death expos’d by my exploit.

Derived terms

• plenipotence

References

• “plenipotent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin plēnipotens.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plɛ.ɲiˈpɔ.tɛnt/

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• Rhymes: -ɔtɛnt
• Syllabification: ple‧ni‧po‧tent

Noun

plenipotent m pers (female equivalent plenipotentka)

1. (literary) agent, attorney-in-fact (agent of the person giving him or her the power of attorney (for a specific purpose or for general purposes) to act on his or her behalf)

   Synonym: pełnomocnik

Declension

Declension of plenipotent

	singular	plural
nominative	plenipotent	plenipotenci/plenipotenty (deprecative)
genitive	plenipotenta	plenipotentów
dative	plenipotentowi	plenipotentom
accusative	plenipotenta	plenipotentów
instrumental	plenipotentem	plenipotentami
locative	plenipotencie	plenipotentach
vocative	plenipotencie	plenipotenci

Derived terms

nouns

• plenipotencja

 

verbs

• plenipotentować impf

 

Related terms

adjectives

• plenipotencyjny

 

Further reading

• plenipotent in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• plenipotent in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin plenipotens.

Adjective

plenipotent m or n (feminine singular plenipotentă, masculine plural plenipotenți, feminine and neuter plural plenipotente)

1. plenipotentiary

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	plenipotent		plenipotentă		plenipotenți	plenipotente
	definite	plenipotentul		plenipotenta		plenipotenții	plenipotentele
genitive- dative	indefinite	plenipotent		plenipotente		plenipotenți	plenipotente
	definite	plenipotentului		plenipotentei		plenipotenților	plenipotentelor

Noun

plenipotent m (plural plenipotenți)

1. plenipotentiary

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	plenipotent	plenipotentul		plenipotenți	plenipotenții
genitive-dative	plenipotent	plenipotentului		plenipotenți	plenipotenților
vocative	plenipotentule			plenipotenților