different between puissance vs stamina

English

Alternative forms

• Puissance (show jumping)

Etymology

From Middle English puissaunce, from Anglo-Norman puissance, pusaunce, and other forms, from Old French puissant (“powerful”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pju??.s(?)ns/, /?pw?-/
• Hyphenation: puis?sance

Noun

puissance (countable and uncountable, plural puissances)

1. Power, might or potency.
   • 2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho: Unreliable Memoirs. Vol. IV, London: Picador, ISBN 978-0-330-48128-1; republished London: Picador, 2007, ISBN 978-0-330-48127-4, page 66:

     Any impression of mental puissance might have been increased by the fact that I was usually to be seen working hard with notebook and biro, shaping up a new book review or a linking script […].

2. (equestrianism) Often Puissance: the high-jump component of the sport of show jumping.

Translations

French

Etymology

From Middle French puissance, derived from Old French puissant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?i.s??s/
• Rhymes: -??s

Noun

puissance f (plural puissances)

1. power (physical or figuratively)
2. dominion (state within the British Empire)

Derived terms

• en puissance
• puissance mondiale

Related terms

• pouvoir

Preposition

puissance

1. (mathematics) to the power of

   Deux puissance quatre égale seize.

Further reading

• “puissance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French puissance.

Noun

puissance f (plural puissances)

1. power

Descendants

• French: puissance

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From puissant, pussant.

Noun

puissance f (oblique plural puissances, nominative singular puissance, nominative plural puissances)

1. power; ability; authority
2. might; strength

Descendants

• English: puissance (borrowed through Anglo-Norman)
• Middle French: puissance
  • French: puissance

English

Etymology

From Latin st?mina, plural of st?men.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?stæm?n?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?stæm?n?/
• Rhymes: -æm?n?
• Hyphenation: stam?i?na

Noun

stamina (usually uncountable, plural staminas)

1. The energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc.

   He has a lot of stamina. I suppose that's why he can run for a long time.
2. (obsolete, uncountable, plural only) The basic elements of a thing; rudimentary structures or qualities.

Translations

Noun

stamina

1. (rare) plural of stamen
   • 1790, William Curtis, The Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-Garden Displayed, Volume 3, 2006 Gutenberg eBook edition,

     In the specimens we have examined, and which perhaps have been rendered luxuriant by culture, the number of stamina has been from twelve to sixteen; of styles, from six to eight; of flowers on the same stalk, from one to eight.

   • 1832 December 8, Spirit of Discovery, in The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Number 579, 2005 Gutenberg eBook edition,

     The gay flowers of the hibiscus tiliaceus, as well as the splendid huth or Barringtonia speciosa, covered with its beautiful flowers, the petals of which are white, and the edges of the stamina delicately tinged with pink, give to the trees when in full bloom a magnificent appearance; the hibiscus rosa-chinensis, or kowa of the natives also grows in luxuriance and beauty.

Anagrams

• Mantias, Satnami, Tasmina, amastin, animats, manatis, manitas

Afrikaans

Noun

stamina (uncountable)

1. stamina

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sta?.mi.na/, [?s?t?ä?m?nä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sta.mi.na/, [?st???min?]

Noun

st?mina

1. nominative plural of st?men
2. accusative plural of st?men
3. vocative plural of st?men

References

• stamina in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)