agens

From Latin agēns, present active participle of agere (“to drive, lead, conduct, manage, perform, do”). The plural agentes derives from the masculine/feminine Latin plural, whereas agentia represents the neuter Latin plural.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaː.ɣɛns/

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• Hyphenation: agens

agens m (plural agentes)

1. (grammar) agent, grammatical agent

• → Indonesian: agens

agens n (plural agentia)

1. agent, effective cause

• patiens

• reagens

• genas, sagen

Borrowed from Dutch agens, from Latin agēns. Doublet of agen.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈaɡɛns/ [ˈa.ɡɛns]
• Rhymes: -aɡɛns
• Syllabification: a‧gens

agèns (plural agens-agens)

1. agent:
   1. (biology) an active power or cause or substance; something (e.g. biological, chemical, thermal, etc.) that has the power to produce an effect
   2. (linguistics, grammar) the participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation

      Synonym: pelaku

• agen (biological, linguistics/grammar)
• agén (biological, chemical, Standard Malay)

• “agens” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Present active participle of agō (“do, make”)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.ɡẽːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.d͡ʒens]

agēns (genitive agentis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. doing, acting, making
   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 1.1.1:

     Et sī voluerīs attendere, maxima pars vītae ēlābitur male agentibus, magna nihil agentibus, tōtā vītā aliud agentibus.

     And if you wish to attend [to your moral improvement, remember this:] the greatest part of life slips away while [we are] behaving badly, much [of the time] in doing nothing, the whole of life by acting otherwise.
     (Note that Latin texts vary in the order of emphasis: “maxima...magna…tota” or “magna…maxima…tota”.)

2. driving

Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.

• “agens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “agens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "agens", 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)
• agens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Learned borrowing from Latin agens. Doublet of agent. First attested in 1801.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡɛns/

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• Rhymes: -aɡɛns
• Syllabification: a‧gens

agens m pers

1. (grammar) agent (doer of the verb)

   agens czasownika ― the agent of a verb

   agens czynności ― the agent of an action

• agens in Polish dictionaries at PWN

agens

1. definite genitive singular of ag

• Agnes, anges, gasen