United States or Greenland ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
The term, in the first of the two senses, is old in German, as appears from the following, extracted from Zedler's 'Grosses Universal Lexicon, vol. xxxvi: 'Seemachten, Seepotenzen, Latin. summae potestatesmaripotentes. 'Seepotenzen' is probably quite obsolete now. It is interesting as showing that German no more abhors Teuto-Latin or Teuto-Romance compounds than English.
Word Of The Day