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"text": "Vulgar Latin: possō (see there for further descendants)"
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{
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{
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{
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"2": "possum"
},
"expansion": "possum (present infinitive posse or potesse, perfect active potuī); irregular conjugation, impersonal in the passive in Old Latin",
"name": "la-verb"
}
],
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"pos": "verb",
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"word": "nequeō"
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"name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
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{
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{
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{
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{
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"word": "multum posse"
},
{
"word": "posse"
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{
"word": "possibilis"
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{
"word": "potēns"
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{
"word": "potentia"
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"examples": [
{
"english": "At that time, he just wasn't able to eat",
"text": "Tunc, modo edere non potuit",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "I am able to speak in Latin",
"text": "Possum Latine loqui",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "Can you help me please?",
"text": "Potesne mihi succurrere, quaeso?",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "(Pallas or Athena meted divine retribution after the fall of Troy; there the Argive/Greek invaders had desecrated Athena’s temple, in which Ajax the Lesser assaulted Cassandra.)",
"ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.39–41",
"text": "“… Pallāsne exūrere classem\nArgīvum atque ipsōs potuit submergere pontō,\nūnīus ob noxam et furiās Aiācis Oīlēī?”\n“Was not Pallas able to burn the Argive fleet and to drown [the men] themselves in the sea – [all] because of the crime and fury of [just] one man, Ajax, [son] of Oileus?”"
},
{
"english": "(The exiled poet addresses his book as if it were a living emissary that he will send to Rome in his place. The optative subjunctive “facerent” expresses a wish, followed by the jussive subjunctive “possem” stating what the writer believes should be done.)",
"ref": "8 CE – 12 CE, Ovid, Sorrows 1.57–58",
"text": "tū tamen ī prō mē, tū, cui licet, aspice Rōmam,\ndī facerent, possem nunc meus esse līber!\nNevertheless, you go instead of me – you, to whom it is allowed, behold [the city of] Rome – Gods! [If only you] would grant [it], [that] now I would be able to be my book!"
}
],
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],
"id": "en-possum-la-verb-UqLrpObF",
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[
"able",
"be able to"
],
[
"can",
"can"
],
[
"may",
"may"
]
],
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],
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{
"word": "absum"
},
{
"word": "adsum"
},
{
"word": "dēsum"
},
{
"word": "īnsum"
},
{
"word": "intersum"
},
{
"word": "obsum"
},
{
"word": "potentiālis"
},
{
"word": "potis"
},
{
"word": "praesum"
},
{
"word": "prōsum"
},
{
"word": "subsum"
},
{
"word": "sum"
},
{
"word": "supersum"
}
],
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{
"word": "polleō"
},
{
"word": "queō"
},
{
"word": "valeō"
},
{
"word": "praevaleō"
},
{
"word": "vigeō"
},
{
"tags": [
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],
"word": "potissum"
}
],
"tags": [
"impersonal"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈpos.sum/",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈpɔs̠ːʊ̃ˑ]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈpos.sum/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈpɔsːum]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
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}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "multum posse"
},
{
"word": "posse"
},
{
"word": "possibilis"
},
{
"word": "potēns"
},
{
"word": "potentia"
}
],
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{
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{
"args": {
"1": "VL.",
"2": "possō"
},
"expansion": "Vulgar Latin: possō",
"name": "desc"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
"name": "see desc"
}
],
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}
],
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{
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"1": "la",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*h₁es-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
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"2": "itc-pro",
"3": "*possom"
},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
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"2": "púttiad",
"3": "",
"4": "they can"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
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"3": "",
"4": "I could"
},
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}
],
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{
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},
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},
{
"word": "subsum"
},
{
"word": "sum"
},
{
"word": "supersum"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "nequeō"
}
],
"categories": [
"Latin 2-syllable words",
"Latin defective verbs",
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin irregular verbs",
"Latin lemmas",
"Latin suppletive verbs",
"Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic",
"Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₁es-",
"Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic",
"Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Latin terms with quotations",
"Latin terms with usage examples",
"Latin verbs",
"Latin verbs with impersonal passive",
"Latin verbs with missing gerund",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "At that time, he just wasn't able to eat",
"text": "Tunc, modo edere non potuit",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "I am able to speak in Latin",
"text": "Possum Latine loqui",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "Can you help me please?",
"text": "Potesne mihi succurrere, quaeso?",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "(Pallas or Athena meted divine retribution after the fall of Troy; there the Argive/Greek invaders had desecrated Athena’s temple, in which Ajax the Lesser assaulted Cassandra.)",
"ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.39–41",
"text": "“… Pallāsne exūrere classem\nArgīvum atque ipsōs potuit submergere pontō,\nūnīus ob noxam et furiās Aiācis Oīlēī?”\n“Was not Pallas able to burn the Argive fleet and to drown [the men] themselves in the sea – [all] because of the crime and fury of [just] one man, Ajax, [son] of Oileus?”"
},
{
"english": "(The exiled poet addresses his book as if it were a living emissary that he will send to Rome in his place. The optative subjunctive “facerent” expresses a wish, followed by the jussive subjunctive “possem” stating what the writer believes should be done.)",
"ref": "8 CE – 12 CE, Ovid, Sorrows 1.57–58",
"text": "tū tamen ī prō mē, tū, cui licet, aspice Rōmam,\ndī facerent, possem nunc meus esse līber!\nNevertheless, you go instead of me – you, to whom it is allowed, behold [the city of] Rome – Gods! [If only you] would grant [it], [that] now I would be able to be my book!"
}
],
"glosses": [
"be able to, can, may"
],
"links": [
[
"able",
"be able to"
],
[
"can",
"can"
],
[
"may",
"may"
]
],
"raw_tags": [
"in the passive in Old Latin"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "polleō"
},
{
"word": "queō"
},
{
"word": "valeō"
},
{
"word": "praevaleō"
},
{
"word": "vigeō"
}
],
"tags": [
"impersonal"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpos.sum/",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈpɔs̠ːʊ̃ˑ]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈpos.sum/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈpɔsːum]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"Old-Latin"
],
"word": "potissum"
}
],
"word": "possum"
}
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