pollent

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pollēns, pollentem (“able, being strong; mighty, powerful”), present active participle of polleō (“to be strong”).[1]

Adjective

pollent (comparative more pollent, superlative most pollent)

  1. (literary, rare) Powerful, strong.
    • 2019, Thomas Moynihan, Spinal Catastrophism: A Secret History, Falmouth, Cornwall: Urbanomic Media Ltd, →ISBN, page 7:
      Yet, for many of the thinkers explored below, pollent superlation—rather than prudent suspicion—offers the promise of reconciling human experience with the enormities (in both senses of the term) of natural history.

References

  1. ^ “pollent, adj.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Latin

Verb

pollent

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of polleō
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