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potentium

potentium 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 genitive plural masculine adjective or present active participle genitive plural.

Found 30 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.4: … pro necessitudine partiturum cum Pompeio arbitratur, simul iudiciorum metus, adulatio atque ostentatio sui et potentium, qui in re publica iudiciisque tum plurimum pollebant. Ipse Pompeius, ab inimicis Caesaris incitatus et quod …

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.