potentとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈpəʊt(ə)nt/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈpoʊt(ə)nt/, [ˈpʰoʊ̯ʔn̩t], [-n̩ʔ]
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈpəʉt(ə)nt/, [ˈpʰəʉ̯ʔn̩t], [-n̩ʔ]
• 韻: -əʊtənt
• ハイフネーション: po‧tent

形容詞

potent (comparative more potent, superlative most potent)

1. Powerful; possessing power; effective.
   • 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]:

     harsh and potent injuries

   • 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy), page 373, column 2:

     Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence.

   • 1906, James George Frazer, Adonis, Attis, Osiris, volume 2, page 261:

     When the party reach the bridegroom's house on their return, his mother and the other women come out, and burn a little mustard and human hair in a lamp, the unpleasant smell emitted by these articles being considered potent to drive away evil spirits.

   • 2013 December 31, Roderick Campbell, Violence and Civilization: Studies of Social Violence in History and Prehistory, Oxbow Books, →ISBN:

     Still today, 400 years on, they remain potent wounds indeed: “When I think of what Oñate did to the Acoma Pueblo,” said a member of Sandia Pueblo in 1998 during the fourth centennial of his conquest, “I have a vision of Indian men lined up to have one foot cut off.”

   1. Possessing authority or influence; persuasive, convincing.

      a potent argument

      • 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, 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:

        Moses once more his potent rod extends.

      • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 173:

        Moreover, her going was a sufficient reason for Hortense accompanying her; and Mazarin hoped as much from her beautiful face as from all the other potent reasons with which he had charged his negotiators.

   2. Possessing strong physical or chemical properties.

      a potent drink; a potent solvent; a potent medicine

      • 1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 53:

        Richardson took over, and Mitchell proceeded to the refreshment room in his turn, but when he came back some ten minutes later, it was evident that he had been indulging in something more potent than coffee, and he was in a very muddled state.

2. (of a male) Able to procreate.
3. (of a cell) Able to differentiate.

派生語

• potentize
• potent potable

名詞

potent (plural potents)

1. (obsolete) A prince; a potentate.
   • c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

     Cry, havock , kings! back to the stained field, You equal potents

2. (obsolete) A staff or crutch.
3. (heraldry) A heraldic fur formed by a regular tessellation of blue and white T shapes.

反意語

• impotent
• (antonym(s) of “heraldry”): counterpotent

派生語

• counter-potent
• cross potent
• equipotent
• idempotent
• multipotent
• nilpotent
• oligopotent
• omnipotent
• pluripotent
• totipotent
• unipotent
• ventripotent

関連する語

• potence
• potency
• potentate
• potential
• potentiality
• potentiate
• potenty, potente
• cross potent

Further reading

• “potent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “potent”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• nettop, top ten

語源

Borrowed from Latin potens, potentis.

発音

• IPA: /pɔːˈtɛnt/, /ˈpɔːtɛnt/

名詞

potent (plural potentes)

1. (chiefly Late Middle English) staff, crutch

派生した語

• English: potent

参照

• “potent(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.