plenipotent

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

plenipotent (comparative more plenipotent, superlative most plenipotent)

  1. Possessing full power.
    • Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IX, 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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/

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
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