German

Noun

Posse f ‎(genitive Posse, plural Possen)

1. (theater or figuratively) farce, burlesque

Declension

External links

• Posse on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

See also

• Possen

English

Noun

posse ‎(plural posses)

1. (US) A group of people summoned to help law enforcement
2. (US) A search party
3. (US, Jamaica) A criminal gang
4. (by extension) A group of associates

Translations

Related terms

• vigilante

Anagrams

• pesos, poses, speos, s'pose, spose

Latin

Pronunciation

IPA: /ˈpɔs.sɛ/

Verb

posse

1. present active infinitive of possum  "to be able (to)"

Noun

posse

1. power, ability
2. (scholastic Latin) potentiality, capability of being
3. (post-classical) force, body of men

References

• POSSE in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “posse”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to be scarcely able to restrain one's laughter: risum tenere vix posse
    
  • (ambiguous) to be scarcely able to restrain one's laughter: risum aegre continere posse
    
  • (ambiguous) to be hardly able to restrain one's tears: lacrimas tenere non posse
    
  • (ambiguous) to be hardly able to restrain one's tears: fletum cohibere non posse
    
  • (ambiguous) to be unable to speak for emotion: prae lacrimis loqui non posse
    
  • (ambiguous) to be unable to sleep: somnum capere non posse
    
  • (ambiguous) to have great influence with a person; to have considerable weight: multum auctoritate valere, posse apud aliquem
    
  • (ambiguous) to have great weight as a speaker: multum dicendo valere, posse
    
  • (ambiguous) to be unable to say all one wants: verbis non omnia exsequi posse
    
  • (ambiguous) to have a powerful navy: navibus plurimum posse
    

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin posse ‎(“power, ability”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.sɨ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.si/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.se/
• Hyphenation: pos‧se

Noun

posse f (plural posses)

1. possession, land
2. (uncountable) ownership
3. (uncountable, politics) command
   • 2015 November 26, São José Almeida, “Cavaco deverá sublinhar desafios ao dar posse a Costa”, in Público:

     No Palácio da Ajuda, tomarão posse todos os membros do Governo, os 17 ministros e os 41 secretários de Estado, numa cerimónia conjunta à imagem do que aconteceu a 30 de Outubro, com o XX Governo, liderado por Pedro Passos Coelho.