poesté

Old French

Alternative forms
  • podestet, pousté (La Vie de Saint Alexis, 11th century manuscripts, Anglo-Norman, respectively)

Etymology

From Latin potestās, potestātem (“power”).

Noun

poesté f (oblique plural poestez, nominative singular poesté, nominative plural poestez)

  1. power; authority

Descendants
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