agens
Dutch
editEtymology
editFrom Latin agēns, present active participle of agere (“to drive, lead, conduct, manage, perform, do”). The plural agentes derives from the masculine/feminine Latin plural, whereas agentia represents the neuter Latin plural.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editagens m (plural agentes)
Descendants
edit- → Indonesian: agens
Noun
editagens n (plural agentia)
Coordinate terms
editDerived terms
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editIndonesian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Dutch agens, from Latin agēns. Doublet of agen.
Pronunciation
edit- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈaɡɛns/ [ˈa.ɡɛns]
- Rhymes: -aɡɛns
- Syllabification: a‧gens
Noun
editagèns (plural agens-agens)
- agent:
- (biology) an active power or cause or substance; something (e.g. biological, chemical, thermal, etc.) that has the power to produce an effect
- (linguistics, grammar) the participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation
- Synonym: pelaku
Alternative forms
edit- agen (biological, linguistics/grammar)
- agén (biological, chemical, Johor-Riau)
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “agens” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Latin
editEtymology
editPresent active participle of agō (“do, make”)
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈa.ɡẽːs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈaː.d͡ʒens]
Participle
editagēns (genitive agentis); third-declension one-termination participle
- doing, acting, making
- c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 1.1.1:
- Et sī voluerīs attendere, maxima pars vītae ēlābitur male agentibus, magna nihil agentibus, tōtā vītā aliud agentibus.
- And if you wish to attend [to your moral improvement, remember this:] the greatest part of life slips away while [we are] behaving badly, much [of the time] in doing nothing, the whole of life by acting otherwise.
(Note that Latin texts vary in the order of emphasis: “maxima...magna…tota” or “magna…maxima…tota”.)
- And if you wish to attend [to your moral improvement, remember this:] the greatest part of life slips away while [we are] behaving badly, much [of the time] in doing nothing, the whole of life by acting otherwise.
- Et sī voluerīs attendere, maxima pars vītae ēlābitur male agentibus, magna nihil agentibus, tōtā vītā aliud agentibus.
- driving
Declension
editThird-declension participle.
singular | plural | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
nominative | agēns | agentēs | agentia | ||
genitive | agentis | agentium | |||
dative | agentī | agentibus | |||
accusative | agentem | agēns | agentēs agentīs |
agentia | |
ablative | agente agentī1 |
agentibus | |||
vocative | agēns | agentēs | agentia |
1When used purely as an adjective.
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “agens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “agens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "agens", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- agens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Polish
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin agens. Doublet of agent. First attested in 1801.[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editagens m pers
- (grammar) agent (doer of the verb)
- agens czasownika ― the agent of a verb
- agens czynności ― the agent of an action
Declension
editDeclension of agens
Related terms
editadjectives
adverbs
References
editFurther reading
edit- agens in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Swedish
editNoun
editagens
Anagrams
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