English
a potiori
A potiori comes from Latin denominatio a potiori ‘naming from the stronger’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdenominatio a potiori‘naming from the stronger’
- Englishearliest quotation 1870a potiori
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdenominatio a potiori‘naming from the stronger’
- Englishearliest quotation 1870a potiori
Earliest quotation: 1870, Horatio Balch Hackett, A Commentary on the Original Text of the Acts of the Apostle: “... 40 embrace the period from Abraham's immigration into…”
Every English word from Latin denominatio a potiori
Today it means
adj from the stronger or more important; according to the majority
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin denominatio a potiori / a potiori