poten-, pot-, poss-, -potent, -potence, -potency, -potential +
(Latin: power, strength, ability, able; having authority over; rule over, command of)
linguipotence
Mastery of languages.
magnipotent, magnipotence
Possessing great power.
multipotent, multipotential
1. Having the power to produce or influence several effects or results.
2. Having the power to do many things; powerful in many respects.
3. Capable of developing into various types of cells, depending on the surrounding conditions.
Nemo tenetur ad impossibile.
No one is bound to an impossibility.
A legal term.
Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecunia possit.
No place is so strongly fortified that money could not capture it.
Another way of saying, "Money can buy anything or anyone." In addition, it could mean, "With enough money, one can have everything he/she wants; except good health and eternal life."
From Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 - 43 B.C.). Cicero's voluminous writings include poetry (both his own and translations from the Greek); orations (fifty-eight have survived, forty-eight are lost); treatises on rhetoric, philosophy, morals, and politics; as well as letters. His treatises are important historically because they contain much information on ancient thought. His letters are the chief source for our knowledge of the period.
After Caesar's murder, he violently attacked Mark Antony in his celebrated Philippics. When the second triumvirate was formed, he was put on the list of the proscribed and was murdered by Antony's agents.
nilpotent, nilpotency
1. Having no power.
2. An algebraic quantity that when raised to a certain power equals zero.
noctipotence
Powers associated with the night; such as, of the legendary vampire.
omnipotence
The state of being
omnipotent; having unlimited power.
In medicine, fantasies of special abilities and power and superiority over others; occurring in infancy and sometimes later in life as a defense mechanism or as an expression of delusional thinking.
omnipotent
1. All powerful, almighty.
2. Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force.
3. Almighty or infinite in power, as God.
4. Having very great or unlimited authority or power.
omnipotently
1. Referring to someone having unlimited power; all powerful.
2. With almighty power.
3. Having virtually unlimited authority or influence.
overpotent
Too powerful.
parvipotent, parvipotence
1. Having little power.
2. Having limited power or authority.
pene-omnipotent, pene-omnipotence
1. Being almost all-powerful.
2. Everything but all-powerful.
pennipotent, pennipotence
1. The power of flight.
2. Strong of wing.
3. Strong on the wing.
plenipotent, plenipotence
Invested with or possessing full power.
Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "master, lead, leading, ruler, ruling, govern":
-agogic;
agon-;
arch-;
-crat;
dom-;
gov-;
magist-;
regi-;
tyran-.