putere

pūtēre

1. inflection of pūteō:
   1. present active infinitive
   2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative

putēre

1. second-person singular present passive subjunctive of putō

From putea (“be able to”) +‎ -re; from Vulgar Latin potēre, from Latin posse (“can, be able to”).

• IPA^(key): /puˈte.re/

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• Rhymes: -ere
• Hyphenation: pu‧te‧re

putere f (plural puteri) (in most senses uncountable)

1. strength (of a being or otherwise)

   Synonym: forță

   cu putere ― powerfully, forcefully

2. power (faculty of doing)

   a sta în puterea cuiva ― to be within someone’s power

3. power (effectiveness)

   putere vindecătoare ― healing power

4. power (jurisdiction)

   Synonym: autoritate

5. (geopolitics, countable) power (strong nation)
6. (military, now uncommon) forces
7. (arithmetic) power

   a ridica la putere ― to raise to a power

8. (mechanics) power
9. (mechanics, obsolete) synonym of forță (“force”)
10. (now uncommon) the dead of (the time of greatest intensity)

    Synonym: toi

    în puterea nopții ― in the dead of night

11. (Christianity, in the plural) powers (level of angel)
12. (obsolete) synonym of putință (“possibility, way”)
13. (obsolete) a power of (a large amount of) [with de ‘of’]
14. (obsolete) material means (wealth)

    Synonym: mijloace

15. (countable, chiefly in the plural, obsolete) miracle

Senses 1, 2 and 3 may also be used in the plural for effect.

• “putere”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025
• Iorgu Iordan, Alexandru Graur, Ion Coteanu, editors (1978), Dicționarul Limbii Române‎^[1], volume 8, part 5, Bucharest: Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, pages 1839–1845

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