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Today's word is puissant, also pronounced puissant, and spelled P-U-I-S-S-A-N-T.
Puissant is an adjective.
It's a synonym of the word powerful, used to describe something with puissance, that is, strength or power.
Here's the word used in a sentence from the Mercury News of San Jose.
The show is light on tech, but the accompanying images pour through as addendums
to Felder's prissant passion of Liszt's Liebenstrama or Beethoven's For Elise and land with great effect.
Puissant has some powerful ties to some more commonplace English words.
Although puissant has a considerably fancier feel than the words power and potent,
all three words share the same Latin ancestor posse, a verb meaning to be able.
Potent came from poten potens, a form of posse.
Power came to us by way of Anglo-French, the word poère, which itself comes from an alteration of posse.
From poère also came the Anglo-French adjective puissant, meaning able or powerful,