potestate

From Middle English potestat, from Old French potestat, from Latin potestās, potestātem.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊtəsteɪt/

potestate (plural potestates)

1. (obsolete) A chief ruler; a potentate.
   • 1582, The Nevv Testament of Iesus Christ: […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Rheims: Iohn Fogny, →OCLC, Epheſians 6:12, page 524:

     For our vvreſtling is not againſt fleſh and bloud : but againſt Princes and Poteſtats, againſt the * rectors of the vvorld of this darkenes, againft the ſpirituals of wickednes in the celeſtials [translating caelestibus].

• “potestate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

potestāte f

1. ablative singular of potestās

potestate

1. alternative form of potestat

Borrowed from Latin potestas.

potestate f (plural potestăți)

1. (obsolete) power, ability

• potestate in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN