See also: Omnipotent

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Etymology edit

Inherited from Middle English omnipotent(e), from Old French omnipotent, from Latin omnipotēns, omnipotentem.

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  • IPA(key): /ɒmˈnɪpətənt/
  • Hyphenation: om‧ni‧po‧tent
  • (file)

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omnipotent (comparative more omnipotent, superlative most omnipotent)

  1. Having unlimited power, force or authority.
    Synonyms: almighty, all-powerful
    • 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Enchantress, pages 16–17:
      All the spirits of the elements bowed down before him; but the future was still hidden from his eyes, and Death was omnipotent.
  2. (biology) Describing a cell (especially a stem cell) that is capable of developing into any type of cell or forming any type of tissue (also called a totipotent cell).
    Coordinate term: pluripotent
  3. (archaic) Arrant.

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omnipotent (plural omnipotents)

  1. An omnipotent being.

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Borrowed from Latin omnipotentem (almighty).

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omnipotent m or f (masculine and feminine plural omnipotents)

  1. omnipotent

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omnipotent (neuter omnipotent, plural and definite singular attributive omnipotente)

  1. omnipotent, almighty
    Synonym: almægtig

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Inherited from Old French omnipotent, from. From Latin omnipotentem (almighty).

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omnipotent (feminine omnipotente, masculine plural omnipotents, feminine plural omnipotentes)

  1. omnipotent

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Etymology edit

Learned borrowing from Latin omnipotēns, omnipotentem.

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  • IPA(key): [ɔmnipoˈtɛnt]
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: om‧ni‧po‧tent

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omnipotent (strong nominative masculine singular omnipotenter, not comparable)

  1. omnipotent
    Synonym: allmächtig

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Learned borrowing from Latin omnipotēns (almighty). By surface analysis, omni- +‎ potent.

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omnipotent m (oblique and nominative feminine singular omnipotent or omnipotente)

  1. omnipotent
    • 13th century, Unknown, La Vie de Saint Laurent, page 13, column 2, line 30:
      car tu es Deu omnipotent
      because you are the omnipotent God

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  • French: omnipotent

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin omnipotēns.

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  • IPA(key): /ˌom.ni.poˈtent/
  • Hyphenation: om‧ni‧po‧tent

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omnipotent m or n (feminine singular omnipotentă, masculine plural omnipotenți, feminine and neuter plural omnipotente)

  1. omnipotent
    Synonym: atotputernic

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