See also: posse

Galician edit

Etymology edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese posse (possession; ownership).

Pronunciation edit

Proper noun edit

Posse f

  1. a surname

Related terms edit

References edit

  • Posse” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • Posse” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • Posse” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

German edit

Etymology edit

Clipping of Possenspiel (Possen (joke; farce) + Spiel (game, play)).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈpɔsə]
  • (file)

Noun edit

Posse f (genitive Posse, plural Possen)

  1. (theater or figuratively) farce, burlesque

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

See also edit

Further reading edit

  • Posse” in Duden online
  • Posse” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache