potentes

potentes is a Latin form of possum, meaning “be able, can”.

It can also be a form of potens, “powerful, able, capable; master of (+gen.)”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective or nominative plural feminine adjective.

Found 74 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.77.15: Romani vero quid petunt aliud aut quid volunt, nisi invidia adducti, quos fama nobiles potentesque bello cognoverunt, horum in agris civitatibusque considere atque his aeternam iniungere servitutem? Neque enim ulla alia condicione bella gesserunt.

Terence, Adelphi 3.4.502: Potentes, dites, fortunati, nobiles,

All forms of possum (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.