plenipotent

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

• IPA^(key): /pliːˈnɪpətənt/

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 ; nd by Robert Boulter ; 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.

• plenipotence

• “plenipotent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin plēnipotens.

• IPA^(key): /plɛ.ɲiˈpɔ.tɛnt/

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• Rhymes: -ɔtɛnt
• Syllabification: ple‧ni‧po‧tent

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

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

Borrowed from Latin plenipotens.

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

1. plenipotentiary

plenipotent m (plural plenipotenți)

1. plenipotentiary