prepotent
/pɹɪˈpoʊtənt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.17 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "To ordre his subiectes after true iustice / As a prepotent prince"
- "[…] Jeff’s eyes were dry, though his face was discharged of all its prepotent impudence."
- "[…] if they had subordinated themselves, docilely and automatically, to the prepotent social and academic figures of the society about them, that in no wise detracted from the favorable impression they had made on her."
- "[…] the exigencies of awareness are that we focus on certain dimensions of the objects before us, make certain ways of seeing them prepotent."
- "When one parent alone displays some of the newly-acquired and generally inheritable character, and the offspring do not inherit it, the cause may lie in the other parent having the power of prepotent transmission."
- "[…] the mother strain, if not prepotent in the sense of science, seems to me to have outweighed that of any other relative of whom we have record."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae- Proto-Indo-European *pótis Proto-Italic *potis Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Italic *-ējō Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ēō Proto-Italic *potēō Proto-Italic *potēnts Latin potēns Latin praepotensbor. English prepotent Borrowed from Latin praepotens.