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potestatis

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

Found 129 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 4.16.4: populi Romani imperium Rhenum finire; si se invito Germanos in Galliam transire non aequum existimaret, cur sui quicquam esse imperii aut potestatis trans Rhenum postularet?

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.