agens

See also: Agens and ágens

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin agēns, present active participle of agere (“to drive, lead, conduct, manage, perform, do”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaː.ɣɛns/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: agens

Noun

agens m (plural agentes)

1. (grammar) agent, grammatical agent

Noun

agens n (plural agentia)

1. agent, effective cause

Coordinate terms

• patiens

Derived terms

• reagens

Anagrams

• genas, sagen

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡens/, [ˈäɡẽːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.d͡ʒens/, [ˈäːd͡ʒens]

Participle

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

1. doing, acting, making
2. driving

Declension

Third-declension participle.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	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

• Catalan: agent
• Dalmatian: agent
• Dutch: agent
• English: agent
• French: agent
• Galician: axente
• Italian: agente
  • → Turkish: acente
• Portuguese: agente
• Romanian: agent
• Spanish: agente

References

• “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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡɛns/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɡɛns
• Syllabification: a‧gens

Noun

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

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

Related terms

adjectives

• agencyjny
• agenturalny
• agenturowy

 

adverbs

• agencyjnie
• agenturalnie

 

nouns

• agenciak
• agencik
• agencja
• agenda
• agendka
• agent
• agentka
• agentura
• agenturalność
• agenturka

 

Further reading

• agens in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Noun

agens

1. definite genitive singular of ag

Anagrams

• Agnes, anges, gasen