potent的词源

英文词源

potent

potent: [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, power

potent (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.

中文词源

potent：强有力的，有效的

词根词缀： -pot-能够 + -ent形容词词尾

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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.