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Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From impotēns (“weak", "powerless", "unbridled”) + -ia.
Noun
impotentia f (genitive impotentiae); first declension
- poverty
- inability
- violence (lack of restraint)
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
impotentia
- 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