Etymology

potentilla

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Today it means: Any of many shrubs and herbs of the genus Potentilla; the cinquefoils. Full definition →

translingual Potentilla ← Latin potentilla
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  1. Latin · derived frompotentilla
  2. translingual · borrowed fromPotentilla
  3. English todaypotentilla

Borrowed from translingual Potentilla, from Latin potentilla, from potēns (“strong”) + -illa (dimintuive suffix).

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