posse
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpos.se/, [ˈpɔs̠ːɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpos.se/, [ˈpɔsːe]
Verb
posse
- present active infinitive of possum "to be able (to)"
Noun
posse n (indeclinable)
- power, ability
- potentiality, capability of being
- (Late Latin) force, body of men
- (Medieval Latin) territory, dominion
References
- “"possum", see "Posse as subst. (poet.)"”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- posse 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)
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.