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possenormalized · posse2 analyses · 2 lemmas
Lemma 1possum, posse, potui
verb
to be able, can; [multum posse => have much/more/most influence/power]
Morphology1 analysis
present infinitive activeposs + e · regular
Lewis & Short
possum, pŏtŭi, posse
irreg. (old forms, potis sum, for possum; POTISIT, S. C. de Bacchan.: potisset, for posset, and potisse, for posse, Lucil. , and 445, 29: possies, Enn. , or Sat. 38 Vahl.; Brix ad — In : potestur, Enn. P. (Ann. 594 Vahl.): Pac. ; Quadrig. : poteratur, Cael. : possitur, Lex. Servil. p. 59 Haubold; Scaurus P.: possetur, Quadrig. ) [potis-sum].
, to be able, have power; I (thou, he, ) can ( queo). — With : potest fieri, it may be, is possible: non possum quin, I can not but: non possum quin exclamem, ut ait ille in Trinummo (; ) — : potest (sc. fieri), it may be, is possible: non, non sic futurum est; Brix — Quantum or ut potest, as much or as far as possible. — In urgent questions.
To be able, to have influence or efficacy, to avail.
With neutr. used adverbially ; multum posse ad salutem alterius. parum potuisse ad exitium, Cic.
, and without neutr. (late ).
Posse aliquem, to be able to embrace one ().
Posse as ().
in elliptical sentences.
In apodosis of conditional sentences, analogous to the auxiliaries of the potential mood Roby, § 1520.
: consul esse qui potui, nisi eum vitae cursum tenuissem.
— when the condition is implied, or is contained in an adverbial clause. — Hence, pŏtens, entis potentum.
, able, mighty, powerful, potent ().
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Having power over, ruling over, master of a thing; with ; so, facere aliquem potentem alicujus rei, to make one master of any thing, to give one the power over a thing: diva potens Cypri, that reigns over Cyprus, i.e. Venus; Corte ad loc.
Fit for, capable of any thing; with : hostes neque pugnae, neque fugae satis potentes caeduntur, unable either to fight or flee.
Partaking of, having attained a thing; with ().
Strong, mighty, powerful, efficacious, potent (mostly and in prose). — — — Hence, : pŏtenter, strongly, mightily, powerfully, effectually ( and in prose). —
According to one's ability or powers ().
Lemma 2Pōssĭs
nounmasculine
célèbre modeleur
Morphology1 analysis
ablative singularposs + e · regular
Lewis & Short

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