🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

potenzialmente problematico

Pronunciation / Transliteration: potentsialmente problematiko

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Potentially-problematic/pəˈtɛn.ʃəl.i ˌprɒb.ləˈmæt.ɪk/
adjectiveCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #15420 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Questo approccio si è rivelato potenzialmente problematico."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Giving cause for concern or likely to cause difficulties, disputes, or complications under certain conditions.

    "The software update contained a potentially-problematic change to the authentication protocol."
  2. 2

    Exhibiting characteristics that could reasonably be interpreted as objectionable, controversial, or flawed.

    "The committee flagged several potentially-problematic statements in the proposed corporate policy."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term is a compound modifier combining 'potentially' (derived from Latin 'potentia', meaning power or capability, via Late Latin and Old French) and 'problematic' (derived from the Greek 'problematikos', meaning disputed or doubtful). It emerged in modern professional discourse to denote items, actions, or ideas that carry a foreseeable risk of causing difficulty, controversy, or failure.

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🇫🇷French → English

potentiellement problématique

Transliteration: potɛ̃siellement pʁɔblematik

"Cette clause contractuelle est potentiellement problématique pour notre entreprise."

🇩🇪German → English

potenziell problematisch

Transliteration: potɛnt͡siˈɛl pʁoblematiːk

"Diese Klausel im Vertrag ist potenziell problematisch."

🇮🇹Italian → English

potenzialmente problematico

Transliteration: potentsialmente problematiko

"Questo approccio si è rivelato potenzialmente problematico."

🇪🇸Spanish → English

potencialmente problemático

Transliteration: potensialˈmente problematiKo

"Esta decisión es potencialmente problemática a largo plazo."

🇵🇹Portuguese → English

potencialmente problemático

Transliteration: potẽvsiawˈmẽtʃi problemɐˈtiku

"O novo regulamento é potencialmente problemático para as pequenas empresas."

🇮🇳Hindi → English

संभावित रूप से समस्याग्रस्त

Transliteration: sambhāvit rūp se samasyāgrast

"यह नई नीति संभावित रूप से समस्याग्रस्त साबित हो सकती है।"

🇨🇳Chinese → English

潜在问题的

Transliteration: qiánzài wèntí de

"这一改动被认为具有潜在的问题。"

🇰🇷Korean → English

잠재적으로 문제가 되는

Transliteration: jamjaejeog-euro munjega doeneun

"이 계약 조건은 잠재적으로 문제가 될 수 있습니다."

🇯🇵Japanese → English

潜在的に問題のある

Transliteration: senzaitekini mondai no aru

"その提案には潜在的に問題のある部分が含まれています。"

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