Where does “poderoso” come from?

poderoso (Galician) comes from Galician poder, from Vulgar Latin potere, from Latin possum, from Proto-Italic *possom.

poderoso (Galician): powerful, mighty

Definitions

  1. powerful, mighty

Ancestry of “poderoso”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Galicianpodercan; first-person singular personal infinitive of...
2Vulgar Latinpotereto be able; second-person singular present...
3LatinpossumI am able, I can, I may
4Proto-Italic*possom—

Words derived from “poderoso”

Every word from Proto-Italic *possom →Every word from Latin possum →Every word from Vulgar Latin potere →
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