Potential [Lat. Potentialis From Potentia ‘Dynamics; State Of That Which Is Not Yet Fully Realized’]

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potential [Lat. potentialis from potentia ‘dynamics; state of that which is not yet fully realized’]

Verbal mood which characterizes an action as possible or probable. The Indo-European lan-guages have no separate paradigm for this mood, using mainly the subjunctive to express it, e.g. the Latin subjunctive existimem ‘I would suspect.’

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Potential [Lat. Potentialis From Potentia ‘Dynamics; State Of That Which Is Not Yet Fully Realized’] from Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics. ISBN: 0-203-98005-0. Published: 12-03-1998. ©2009 Taylor and Francis. All rights reserved.