potentとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊt(ə)nt/
  • (General American) enPR: pōtʹnt IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊt(ə)nt/, [ˈpʰoʊ̯ʔn̩t], [-n̩ʔ]
  • 韻: -əʊtənt
  • ハイフネーション: po‧tent

形容詞

potent (comparative more potent, superlative most potent)

1. Possessing strength.

   a potent argument

   • 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.

   • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter I, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, →OCLC:

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

2. Powerfully effective.

   a potent medicine

   • 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.

   • 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.

3. Having a sharp or offensive taste.
4. (of a male) Able to procreate.
5. Very powerful or 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

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     Moses once more his potent rod extends.

6. (of a cell) Ability to differentiate.

派生語

• potent potable

名詞

potent (複数形 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
• (heraldry): counterpotent

派生語

• equipotent
• idempotent
• multipotent
• nilpotent
• oligopotent
• omnipotent
• pluripotent
• totipotent
• unipotent
• ventripotent

関連する語

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

Further reading

• “potent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “potent”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• nettop, top ten

Latin

動詞

pōtent

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of pōtō