potestate

potestate is a Latin form of potestas, meaning “power, authority; ability, opportunity (to do something)”. It is the ablative singular feminine noun.

Found 632 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.32.5: velut si coram adesset, horrerent, propterea quod reliquis tamen fugae facultas daretur, Sequanis vero, qui intra fines suos Ariovistum recepissent, quorum oppida omnia in potestate eius essent, omnes cruciatus essent perferendi.

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.41: … tur et sub castris Afranii constitit et ibi paulisper sub armis moratus facit aequo loco pugnandi potestatem. Potestate facta Afranius copias educit et in medio colle sub castris constituit. Caesar, ubi cognovit per Afranium star …

Plautus, Mostellaria 1.2.134: ín fabrorúm potestáte dum fui.

All forms of potestas (declension 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.