#4th declension

“SCIENTIA POTENTATUS EST”

“Knowledge is power”

Potentatus, a nice masculine fourth declension noun, does mean “power”. Making this technically correct. Potentatus, however, seems to be very uncommon in Classical Latin, appearing only once each in Cicero, Caesar, and Livy according to the Lewis and Short. A PHI Latin (latin.packhum.org) search only comes up with Caesar and Livy, plus an example from Justinian.

Some of us might be more comfortable with the more popular “potentia”, as in “Scientia potentia est.”

H/t to Thomas Schmid (@th_schmid) via Twitter for this found Latin.