agens
See also: Agens and ágens
Dutch
Etymology
From Latin agēns, present active participle of agere (“to drive, lead, conduct, manage, perform, do”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈaː.ɣɛns/
audio (file) - Hyphenation: agens
Noun
agens m (plural agentes)
- (grammar) agent, grammatical agent
Noun
agens n (plural agentia)
- agent, effective cause
Coordinate terms
- patiens
Derived terms
- reagens
Anagrams
- genas, sagen
Latin
Etymology
Present active participle of agō (“do, make”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈa.ɡens/, [ˈäɡẽːs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.d͡ʒens/, [ˈäːd͡ʒens]
Participle
agēns (genitive agentis); third-declension one-termination participle
- doing, acting, making
- driving
Declension
Third-declension participle.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | agēns | agentēs | agentia | ||
| Genitive | agentis | agentium | |||
| Dative | agentī | agentibus | |||
| Accusative | agentem | agēns | agentēs agentīs | agentia | |
| Ablative | agente agentī1 | agentibus | |||
| Vocative | agēns | agentēs | agentia | ||
1When used purely as an adjective.
Descendants
- Catalan: agent
- Dutch: agent
- English: agent
- French: agent
- Galician: axente
- Italian: agente
- → Turkish: acente
- Portuguese: agente
- Romanian: agent
- Spanish: agente
References
- “agens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “agens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- agens in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- agens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Polish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin agens. Doublet of agent. First attested in 1801.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈa.ɡɛns/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -aɡɛns
- Syllabification: a‧gens
Noun
agens m pers
- (grammar) agent (doer of the verb)
- agens czasownika ― the agent of a verb
- agens czynności ― the agent of an action
Declension
Declension of agens
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | agens | agensi |
| genitive | agensa | agensów |
| dative | agensowi | agensom |
| accusative | agensa | agensów |
| instrumental | agensem | agensami |
| locative | agensie | agensach |
| vocative | agensie | agensi |
Related terms
adjectives
- agencyjny
- agenturalny
- agenturowy
adverbs
- agencyjnie
- agenturalnie
nouns
- agenciak
- agencik
- agencja
- agenda
- agendka
- agent
- agentka
- agentura
- agenturalność
- agenturka
References
- Teoryczna y praktyczna grammatyka JP. D'Abrego, 1801, page 6
- Pęzik, Piotr; Przepiórkowski, A.; Bańko, M.; Górski, R.; Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, B (2012) Wyszukiwarka PELCRA dla danych NKJP. Narodowy Korpus Języka Polskiego [National Polish Language Corpus, PELCRA search engine], Wydawnictwo PWN
Further reading
- agens in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- agens in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Swedish
Noun
agens
- definite genitive singular of ag.
Anagrams
- Agnes, anges, gasen