potestas: all forms
potestas means “power, authority; ability, opportunity (to do something)”. Below is its full declension in Latin.
Forms
| Feminine | |
|---|---|
| Nominative | potestas |
| Genitive | potestatis |
| Dative | potestati |
| Accusative | potestatem |
| Ablative | potestate |
| Vocative | potestas |
| Locative | potestate |
| Feminine | |
|---|---|
| Nominative | potestates |
| Genitive | potestatum · potestatium |
| Dative | potestatibus |
| Accusative | potestates |
| Ablative | potestatibus |
| Vocative | potestates |
| Locative | potestatibus |
Meaning and examples of potestas
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.