possibilitas

Latin

Etymology

possibilis +‎ -tās

Noun

possibilitās f (genitive possibilitātis); third declension

1. possibility
2. power (to do something)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	possibilitās	possibilitātēs
Genitive	possibilitātis	possibilitātum
Dative	possibilitātī	possibilitātibus
Accusative	possibilitātem	possibilitātēs
Ablative	possibilitāte	possibilitātibus
Vocative	possibilitās	possibilitātēs

Descendants

• Romansch: pussaivladad
• → Catalan: possibilitat
• → English: possibility
• → French: possibilité
• → Galician: posibilidade
• → Interlingua: possibilitate
• → Italian: possibilità
• → Portuguese: possibilidade
• → Romanian: posibilitate
• → Spanish: posibilidad

References

• “possibilitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• possibilitas 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)
• possibilitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Verb

possibilitas

1. second-person singular present indicative of possibilitar