Posse
See also: posse
Galician edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese posse (“possession; ownership”).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Posse f
- 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
Noun edit
Posse f (genitive Posse, plural Possen)
- (theater or figuratively) farce, burlesque
Declension edit
Declension of Posse [feminine]
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- Posse on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de