agens

From Latin agēns, present active participle of agere (“to drive, lead, conduct, manage, perform, do”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈaː.ɣɛns/

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• Hyphenation: agens

agens m (plural agentes)

1. (grammar) agent, grammatical agent

agens n (plural agentia)

1. agent, effective cause

• patiens

• reagens

• genas, sagen

Present active participle of agō (“do, make”)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡens/, [ˈäɡẽːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.d͡ʒens/, [ˈäːd͡ʒens]

agēns (genitive agentis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. doing, acting, making
2. driving

Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.

• “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.

Learned borrowing from Latin agens. Doublet of agent. First attested in 1801.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡɛns/

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• Rhymes: -aɡɛns
• Syllabification: a‧gens

agens m pers

1. (grammar) agent (doer of the verb)

   agens czasownika ― the agent of a verb

   agens czynności ― the agent of an action

• agens in Polish dictionaries at PWN

agens

1. definite genitive singular of ag

• Agnes, anges, gasen