power
/ˈpaʊ̯.ɚ/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.52 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He has lost the power to speak."
- "On June 8, 1872, the London & North Western Railway obtained powers to quadruple its main line, and a new tunnel was bored for the up and down slow lines."
- "If it is spirits who have power to suffer, it seems they would also have active powers to think and will."
- "The proportion of female colleagues in the Hsinchu County Government and its affiliated units has reached 61%. “Women Power” is the power behind over half of the services provided by the county government."
- "the power of the written word"
- "An incident which happened about this time will set the characters of these two lads more fairly before the discerning reader than is in the power of the longest dissertation."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pótis Proto-Italic *potis Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- Proto-Indo-European *-t Proto-Indo-European *bʰúHt Proto-Italic *som Proto-Italic *possom Latin posseder. Vulgar Latin potēre Old French pooir Anglo-Norman poerbor. Middle English power English power From Middle English power, poer, from Old French poeir, from Vulgar Latin potēre, from Latin posse, whence English potent. Compare French pouvoir. Displaced the native Old English anweald.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpaʊ̯.ɚ/
- British English: /ˈpaʊ̯ə̯/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Physics, Military, Religion.
Inflected Forms
powers (plural)
powre (alternative, obsolete)
powers (present, singular)
powering (participle, present)
powered (participle, past)
powered (past)
more power (comparative)
most power (superlative)