impotentia

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Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From impotēns (“weak", "powerless", "unbridled”) +‎ -ia.

Noun

impotentia f (genitive impotentiae); first declension

  1. poverty
  2. inability
  3. violence (lack of restraint)
Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative impotentia impotentiae
genitive impotentiae impotentiārum
dative impotentiae impotentiīs
accusative impotentiam impotentiās
ablative impotentiā impotentiīs
vocative impotentia impotentiae
Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

impotentia

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of impotēns

References

  • “impotentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “impotentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • impotentia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • impotentia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • impotentia in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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