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impotens
impotens
Latin
Alternative forms
Adjective
impotēns m, f, n (genitive impotentis); third declension
- Powerless, weak, feeble, impotent, helpless, puny.
- Unable to control, having no power over; incapable of.
- Unbridled, unrestrained, headstrong, wild, violent, excessive.
Inflection
Third declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| nominative | impotēns | impotentēs | impotentia | ||
| genitive | impotentis | impotentium | |||
| dative | impotentī | impotentibus | |||
| accusative | impotentem | impotēns | impotentēs | impotentia | |
| ablative | impotentī | impotentibus | |||
| vocative | impotēns | impotentēs | impotentia | ||
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References
- impotens in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- impotens in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “impotens”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a man of no self-control, self-indulgent: homo impotens sui
- despotic, tyrannous rule: dominatio impotens
- a man of no self-control, self-indulgent: homo impotens sui
- impotens in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016