plenipotent

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin plenus (full) + potens, potentis (potent).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pliːˈnɪpətənt/

Adjective

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plenipotent (comparative more plenipotent, superlative most plenipotent)

  1. Having full power.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book CCLXX”, in Paradise Lost. [], London: [] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker []; [a]nd by Robert Boulter []; [a]nd Matthias Walker, [], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: [], London: Basil Montagu Pickering [], 1873, →OCLC, line 404:
      My Substitutes I send ye, and Create
      Plenipotent on Earth, of matchless might
      Issuing from mee: on your joynt vigor now
      My hold of this new Kingdom all depends,
      Through Sin to Death expos’d by my exploit.

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Polish

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin plēnipotens.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /plɛ.ɲiˈpɔ.tɛnt/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔtɛnt
  • Syllabification: ple‧ni‧po‧tent

Noun

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plenipotent m pers (female equivalent plenipotentka)

  1. (literary) agent, attorney-in-fact (agent of the person giving him or her the power of attorney (for a specific purpose or for general purposes) to act on his or her behalf)
    Synonym: pełnomocnik

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Further reading

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  • plenipotent in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • plenipotent in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin plenipotens.

Adjective

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plenipotent m or n (feminine singular plenipotentă, masculine plural plenipotenți, feminine and neuter plural plenipotente)

  1. plenipotentiary

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Noun

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plenipotent m (plural plenipotenți)

  1. plenipotentiary

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