poitéinseal

Irish

Etymology

From English potential, from Late Latin potentiālis, from Latin potentia (“power”), from potēns (“powerful”).

Noun

poitéinseal m (genitive singular poitéinsil)

  1. potential (capability)
  2. (electricity, physics) potential

Declension

Declension of poitéinseal (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative poitéinseal
vocative a phoitéinsil
genitive poitéinsil
dative poitéinseal
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an poitéinseal
genitive an phoitéinsil
dative leis an bpoitéinseal
don phoitéinseal

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • difríocht phoitéinsil (“potential difference”)
  • poitéinseal gníomhaithe (“action potential”)
  • poitéinseal leictreach (“electrical potential”)
  • poitéinseal margaidh (“market potential”)
  • poitéinseal tairsí (“threshold potential”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of poitéinseal
radical lenition eclipsis
poitéinseal phoitéinseal bpoitéinseal

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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