potestade
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin potestātem. Doublet of podestade.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /po.tesˈta.d͡ʒi/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /po.teʃˈta.d͡ʒi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /po.tesˈta.de/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /pu.tɨʃˈta.dɨ/ [pu.tɨʃˈta.ðɨ]
- Hyphenation: po‧tes‧ta‧de
Noun
potestade f (plural potestades)
- power, strength
- potentate (person who holds power or authority)
- divinity
- (religion, in the plural) power (the angels of the sixth hierarchy)
Related terms
nouns
- potência f
Further reading
- “potestade”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “potestade”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025