The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
Appendix I
Indo-European Roots
ENTRY:
poti-
DEFINITION:
Powerful; lord. 1.podesta, possess, power, from Latin potis (> *pots > pos-), powerful, able. 2.possible, potent; impotent, omnipotent, prepotent, from Latin compound posse, to be able (contracted from potis, able + esse, to be; see es-). 3. Form *pot-.a. Compound *ghos-pot- (see ghos-ti-); b. compound *dems-pot- (see dem-). 4.bashaw, Padishah, pasha, from Old Persian pati-, master. (Pokorny poti-s 842.)
