Word For The Day - PUISSANT

www.dictionary.com ^ | 04-21-2017 | Red Badger

[Red Badger]

................It’s FRIDAY!...................

In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of “Word for the Day”.

PUISSANT

puis·sant

[pyoo-uh-suh nt, pyoo-is-uh nt, pwis-uh nt]

adjective - literary

: having puissance : powerful

Origin:

Puissant has some powerful ties to some more commonplace English words. Although "puissant" has a considerably fancier feel than "power" and "potent," all three words share the same Latin ancestor: posse, a verb meaning "to be able." "Power" came to us by way of Anglo-French poer, which is itself thought to have come from "potēre," a Vulgar Latin alteration of "posse." "Potent" came from "potent-, potens," a present participle of "posse." From "poer" came the adjective pussant, meaning "able" or "powerful" in Anglo-French, and English speakers borrowed that to form "puissant" in the 15th century.

Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.

The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day........

[Red Badger]

PUSSY HAT

PUISSANT HAT

[Red Badger]

Class is in session................

[JBW1949]

Drop the “u” and you have democrat....

[Red Badger]

PUSSY HAT PUISSANT HAT

[rktman]

Who you callin’ a pissant? ;-)

[Red Badger]

LOL!................

[dp0622]

I called obama a little puissant many times over 8 years.

However,, I arrived at the word by combining two others.

[rktman]

LOL! Yeah, the first attempt didn’t work. Much better on the 2nd attempt.

[Red Badger]

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/pissant

[Red Badger]

I don’t know why the first didn’t work. They look the same!...............

[rktman]

Computers have a mind of their own. When they feel like it. Twice this morning when I powered up, mine told me it couldn’t find my profile. Two power downs and ups later, it was able to find me.

[dp0622]

Linked to a Fascinating story about how the ampersand was once a letter of the alphabet. :)

http://blog.dictionary.com/ampersand/

[Red Badger]

I wrote the code yesterday.
It worked.
I tried to post it this morn.
It didn’t.
I erased and rewrote.
It worked.
I have no idea.......................

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[TruthShallSetYouFree]

As Hillary chews on her third croissant
Mourning that she'll never be puissant
Didn't follow the rules
Thought the voters were fools
Plus, she isn't très intéressant

[Red Badger]

Excellent! A poem in Two languages! A++++!.............

[JBW1949]

:^)

[Tucker39]

Some years ago in my auction business I did an auction for a family named Pusey. I was accused of vulgarity when I published the add in the newspapers, which included their name.

[Red Badger]

Good thing you weren’t working for Andy Dick...................

[Robert A Cook PE]

The cat wiggled his bottom, and firmly settled his pussant right back in the black velvet couch.