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agens

See also: Agens and ágens

Dutch

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Etymology

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From 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

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  • IPA(key): /ˈaː.ɣɛns/
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  • Hyphenation: agens

Noun

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agens m (plural agentes)

  1. (grammar) agent, grammatical agent

Descendants

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  • → Indonesian: agens

Noun

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agens n (plural agentia)

  1. agent, effective cause

Coordinate terms

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Derived terms

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Anagrams

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Dutch agens, from Latin agēns. Doublet of agen.

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Noun

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agèns (plural agens-agens)

  1. agent:
    1. (biology) an active power or cause or substance; something (e.g. biological, chemical, thermal, etc.) that has the power to produce an effect
    2. (linguistics, grammar) the participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation
      Synonym: pelaku

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Further reading

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Latin

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Etymology

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Present active participle of agō (“do, make”)

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Participle

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agēns (genitive agentis); third-declension one-termination participle

  1. 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”.)
  2. driving

Declension

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Third-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

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References

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  • “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

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin agens. Doublet of agent. First attested in 1801.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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agens m pers

  1. (grammar) agent (doer of the verb)
    agens czasownika ― the agent of a verb
    agens czynności ― the agent of an action

Declension

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Declension of agens
singular plural
nominative agens agensi/agensy (deprecative)
genitive agensa agensów
dative agensowi agensom
accusative agensa agensów
instrumental agensem agensami
locative agensie agensach
vocative agensie agensi
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  1. ^ Teoryczna y praktyczna grammatyka JP. D'Abrego‎[1], 1801, page 6

Further reading

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  • agens in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

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Noun

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agens

  1. definite genitive singular of ag

Anagrams

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