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potestate

/ˈpəʊtəsteɪt/obsolete

potestate is a noun meaning “A chief ruler; a potentate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-O-T-E-S-T-A-T-E, and it appears about once in every 51 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of potestate is potestates.

What does potestate mean?

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteA chief ruler; a potentate.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce potestate?

  • /ˈpəʊtəsteɪt/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is potestate?

Potestate appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does potestate come from?

From Middle English potestat, from Old French potestat, from Latin potestās, potestātem.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).