plenipotent

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

plenipotent (comparative more plenipotent, superlative most plenipotent)

  1. Possessing full power.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, line 400:
      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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for plenipotent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Polish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /plɛ.ɲiˈpɔ.tɛnt/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔtɛnt
  • Syllabification: ple‧ni‧po‧tent

Noun

plenipotent m pers (feminine plenipotentka)

  1. agent, attorney-in-fact
    Synonym: pełnomocnik

Declension
Declension of plenipotent
singular plural
nominative plenipotent plenipotenci
genitive plenipotenta plenipotentów
dative plenipotentowi plenipotentom
accusative plenipotenta plenipotentów
instrumental plenipotentem plenipotentami
locative plenipotencie plenipotentach
vocative plenipotencie plenipotenci

Derived terms
noun
  • plenipotencja

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

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin plenipotens.

Adjective

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

  1. plenipotentiary

Declension
Declension of plenipotent
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
Declension of plenipotent
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) plenipotent plenipotentul (niște) plenipotenți plenipotenții
genitive/dative (unui) plenipotent plenipotentului (unor) plenipotenți plenipotenților
vocative plenipotentule plenipotenților
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