{
  "normalForm": true,
  "headword": "POTESTAS, -ātis",
  "etymology": [
    {
      "period": "PIE",
      "form": "*pót-i-",
      "def": "'master'",
      "certitude": true
    },
    {
      "period": "PIt",
      "form": "*poti-, *pot-ē-",
      "def": "'master, in control of', 'to be master'",
      "certitude": true
    }
  ],
  "dataFormat": "cent",
  "meanings": [
    {
      "definition": "chance, opportunity",
      "construct": "_",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "fmtei",
          "category": "Modal: dynamic",
          "emergence": -3,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "PLAUT. Asin. 847 tibi potestatem dedi, cum hac annum ut esses, atque amanti argenti feci copiam.",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [],
            "destinations": [],
            "unspecified": [
              {
                "rel": "uadjmicq",
                "cert": true
              },
              {
                "rel": "owvv",
                "cert": true
              },
              {
                "rel": "ncuhk",
                "cert": true
              },
              {
                "rel": "gyrgvh",
                "cert": true
              },
              {
                "rel": "secrl",
                "cert": true
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "to give the chance",
      "construct": "Potestatem do",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "uadjmicq",
          "category": "Modal: dynamic",
          "emergence": -3,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "PLAUT. Asin. 847 quoniam tibi potestatem dedi cum hac annum ut esses || PLAUT. Capt. 374 cum copiam istam mihi et potestatem facis ut ...remittam nuntium",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [],
            "destinations": [],
            "unspecified": [
              {
                "rel": "fmtei",
                "cert": true
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "power, control, by which someone (or something) is in control, can impel a particular line of thought or action, or by the means of which s/he can obtain something",
      "construct": "_",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "owvv",
          "category": "Not modal",
          "emergence": -2,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "PLAUT. Stich. 53 nolo nuptias mutarier; verum postremo in patris potestate est situm.",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [],
            "destinations": [],
            "unspecified": [
              {
                "rel": "fmtei",
                "cert": true
              },
              {
                "rel": "ncuhk",
                "cert": true
              },
              {
                "rel": "bzmozr",
                "cert": true
              },
              {
                "rel": "rmzhquj",
                "cert": true
              },
              {
                "rel": "lkjcute",
                "cert": true
              },
              {
                "rel": "upcwqm",
                "cert": true
              },
              {
                "rel": "sszpbo",
                "cert": true
              },
              {
                "rel": "jkytybo",
                "cert": true
              },
              {
                "rel": "qvhaeei",
                "cert": true
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "permission, freedom",
      "construct": "_",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "ncuhk",
          "category": "Modal: deontic",
          "emergence": -2,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "PLAUT. Capt. 374 cum copiam istam mihi et potestatem facis ut ...remittam nuntium",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [],
            "destinations": [],
            "unspecified": [
              {
                "rel": "fmtei",
                "cert": true
              },
              {
                "rel": "owvv",
                "cert": true
              },
              {
                "rel": "bzmozr",
                "cert": true
              },
              {
                "rel": "xobqq",
                "cert": true
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "capacity, abilities",
      "construct": "_",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "bzmozr",
          "category": "Modal: dynamic",
          "emergence": -2,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "LUCR. 2, 286 unde haec est nobis innata potestas?",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [],
            "destinations": [],
            "unspecified": [
              {
                "rel": "owvv",
                "cert": true
              },
              {
                "rel": "ncuhk",
                "cert": true
              },
              {
                "rel": "djvbao",
                "cert": true
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "control over oneself",
      "construct": "_",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "djvbao",
          "category": "Not modal",
          "emergence": -2,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "CATO orig. 95 a dum ex tanto gaudio in potestatem nostram redeamus.",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [],
            "destinations": [],
            "unspecified": [
              {
                "rel": "bzmozr",
                "cert": true
              },
              {
                "rel": "upcwqm",
                "cert": true
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "to be in the power of someone",
      "construct": "In potestate(m) sum",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "rmzhquj",
          "category": "Not modal",
          "emergence": -2,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "PLAUT. Aul. 534 Nam quae indotata est, ea in potestate est viri.",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [],
            "destinations": [
              {
                "rel": "qozqfdk",
                "cert": true
              }
            ],
            "unspecified": [
              {
                "rel": "owvv",
                "cert": true
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "to give permission",
      "construct": "Potestatem facio",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "xobqq",
          "category": "Modal: deontic",
          "emergence": -2,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "PLAUT. Capt. 374  cum copiam istam mihi et potestatem facis ut … remittam nuntium",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [],
            "destinations": [],
            "unspecified": [
              {
                "rel": "ncuhk",
                "cert": true
              },
              {
                "rel": "upcwqm",
                "cert": true
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "(referred to what indicates) means something",
      "construct": "_",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "pwo",
          "category": "Not modal",
          "emergence": -1,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "RHET. HER. 4, 25, 35 definitio est, quae rei alicuius proprias amplectitur potestates breviter.",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [],
            "destinations": [],
            "unspecified": [
              {
                "rel": "qrgrlj",
                "cert": false
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "that has some power",
      "construct": "_",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "lkjcute",
          "category": "Not modal",
          "emergence": -1,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "CIC. leg. 2, 31 a summis imperiis et summis potestatibus .. concilia ... instituta.",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [],
            "destinations": [],
            "unspecified": [
              {
                "rel": "owvv",
                "cert": true
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "it is possible",
      "construct": "In potestate(m) sum",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "qozqfdk",
          "category": "Modal: dynamic",
          "emergence": -1,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "CIC. Tusc. 3, 66 Ergo in potestate est abicere dolorem, cum velis, tempori servientem.",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [
              {
                "rel": "rmzhquj",
                "cert": true
              }
            ],
            "destinations": [],
            "unspecified": []
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "to offer oneself to someone else",
      "construct": "In potestatem sui facio",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "upcwqm",
          "category": "Not modal",
          "emergence": -1,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "CIC. ad Q. fr. 1, 2, 15 cum neque praetores diebus aliquot adiri possent vel potestatem sui facerent.",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [],
            "destinations": [],
            "unspecified": [
              {
                "rel": "owvv",
                "cert": true
              },
              {
                "rel": "djvbao",
                "cert": true
              },
              {
                "rel": "xobqq",
                "cert": true
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "the person on whom the power of someone else relies",
      "construct": "_",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "sszpbo",
          "category": "Not modal",
          "emergence": 1,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "STAT. silv. 1, 2, 137 (Venus ad Amorem) tu, mea summa potestas, nate. ",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [],
            "destinations": [],
            "unspecified": [
              {
                "rel": "owvv",
                "cert": true
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "value of something",
      "construct": "_",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "qrgrlj",
          "category": "Not modal",
          "emergence": 2,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "GAIUS dig. 13, 4, 3 pecuniarum ... licet videatur una et eadem potestas ubique esse, tamen aliis locis facilius et levibus usuris inveniuntur.",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [],
            "destinations": [],
            "unspecified": [
              {
                "rel": "pwo",
                "cert": false
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "by which something can exist or happen (transl. possibility, potentiality)",
      "construct": "_",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "secrl",
          "category": "Not modal",
          "emergence": 2,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "PS. QUINT. decl. 7, 4 p. 136, 28 lex ... liberum hominem torqueri vetat omnium beneficiorum ista natura est, ut non sit necessitas, sed potestas. ",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [],
            "destinations": [
              {
                "rel": "gyrgvh",
                "cert": true
              }
            ],
            "unspecified": [
              {
                "rel": "fmtei",
                "cert": true
              }
            ]
          }
        },
        {
          "id": "gyrgvh",
          "category": "Modal: dynamic",
          "emergence": 4,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "IUVENC. 4, 503 hunc quoniam calicem non est transire potestas.",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [
              {
                "rel": "secrl",
                "cert": true
              }
            ],
            "destinations": [],
            "unspecified": [
              {
                "rel": "fmtei",
                "cert": true
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "something that has been done powerfully or is proof of power",
      "construct": "_",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "jkytybo",
          "category": "Not modal",
          "emergence": 3,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "ITALA psalm. 113, 2 in exitu Israhel ex Aegypto ... facta est Iudaea sanctitas eius dei, Israhel potetas eius; mare vidit et fugit eqs.",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [],
            "destinations": [],
            "unspecified": [
              {
                "rel": "owvv",
                "cert": true
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "possessions, borders undersomeone’s power, domains",
      "construct": "_",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "qvhaeei",
          "category": "Not modal",
          "emergence": 4,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "VULG. IV reg. 20, 13 rex monstravit legatis omnes thesauros suos in domo sua et in omni potestate sua.",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [],
            "destinations": [],
            "unspecified": [
              {
                "rel": "owvv",
                "cert": true
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}