possideo
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From potis (“able”) + sedeō (“sit”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /posˈsi.de.oː/, [pɔs̠ˈs̠ɪd̪eoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /posˈsi.de.o/, [posˈsiːd̪eo]
Verb edit
possideō (present infinitive possidēre, perfect active possēdī, supine possessum); second conjugation
- to have, hold, own, possess
- to possess lands, have possessions
- to take control or possession of, seize, occupy
- Synonyms: potior, obsideō, compleō, obtineō, teneō, adipīscor, comprehendō, dēprehendō, occupō, arripiō, corripiō, capessō, capiō, apprehendō
- to occupy
- Synonyms: occupō, comprehendō, teneō, obsideō, compleō
- to inhabit, abide
- (Medieval Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin) to acquire
- Synonyms: acquīrō, adipīscor, cōnsequor, parō, pariō, impetrō, mereō, sūmō, emō, comparō, apīscor, obtineō, conciliō, nancīscor, colligō, alliciō
- Antonym: āmittō
- (Medieval Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin) to inherit
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References edit
- “possideo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “possideo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- possideo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to possess means, to be well off: rem or opes habere, bona possidere, in bonis esse
- (ambiguous) to possess means, to be well off: rem or opes habere, bona possidere, in bonis esse