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6-letter words (1 found)

POSSUM,

5-letter words (7 found)

MOPUS,MOUPS,MUSOS,SOUMS,SOUPS,SUMOS,SUMPS,

4-letter words (21 found)

MOPS,MOSS,MOUP,MOUS,MUSO,MUSS,OPUS,OUPS,POMS,POSS,PUSS,SOMS,SOPS,SOUM,SOUP,SOUS,SUMO,SUMP,SUMS,SUPS,UMPS,

3-letter words (22 found)

MOP,MOS,MOU,MUS,OMS,OPS,OUP,OUS,POM,POS,PUS,SOM,SOP,SOS,SOU,SUM,SUP,SUS,UMP,UMS,UPO,UPS,

2-letter words (11 found)

MO,MU,OM,OP,OS,OU,PO,SO,UM,UP,US,

You can make 62 words from possum according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of possum

possum

Etymology

Derived from opossum by apheresis.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: pŏs'əm, IPA(key): /ˈpɒsəm/
  • Rhymes: -ɒsəm

Noun

possum (plural possums)

  1. (US) An opossum, a marsupial of the family Didelphidae of the Americas.
  2. Any of the marsupials in several families of the order Diprotodontia of Australia and neighboring islands.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • opossum

Translations

See also

  • possum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Diprotodontia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Didelphidae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

possum (third-person singular simple present possums, present participle possuming, simple past and past participle possumed)

  1. (intransitive) To play possum; to feign sleep, illness, or death.

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *possom, from *potis (“master in control of”) + *som (“I am”). Cognates include Oscan púttiad (“they can”) and South Picene puti (“I could”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpos.sum/, [ˈpɔs̠ːʊ̃ˑ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpos.sum/, [ˈpɔsːum]

Verb

possum (present infinitive posse, perfect active potuī); irregular conjugation, irregular, no passive

  1. be able to, can, may
    Synonyms: polleō, queō, valeō, praevaleō, vigeō
    Antonym: nequeō
    Tunc, modo edere non potuit ― At that time, he just wasn't able to eat
    Possum Latine loqui ― I am able to speak in Latin
    Potesne mihi succurrere, quaeso? ― Can you help me please?

Conjugation

This verb is irregular, but synchronously resembles sum prefixed with pot-. Several contractions and simplifications occur, however, namely: -ts- → -ss-, -tf- → -t-, -tess- → -ss- (note that potēns does not originate from non-existent *fēns).

However, while this analysis works synchronically, diachronically, this relationship does not reflect a cognate historical relationship in all cases. For example, Osco-Umbrian forms confirm that a Proto-Italic verb Proto-Italic *poteō (“to be master”) (stem *pot-ē-) must also be reconstructed that, although lost in Latin otherwise, appears to have been the ultimate historical source of potuī and potēns.

In Vulgar Latin, the first person singular is changed to possō (causing the verb to be treated like a third conjugation verb (base poss-) in the present subjunctive (*possam, *possās)), while the third person plural (eī/eae/ea) possunt was preserved as such, though the rest of the verb became the second conjugation verb potēre ((tu) *potēs, (is/ea/id) *potet, (nōs) *potēmus and (vōs) *potētis), based on forms like potuī and potēns, just like velle (infinitive of volō) was reformed to *volēre after forms like voluī and volēns.


  • Some passive forms are attested in pre-classical authors (e.g. potestur, poteratur, possitur, possetur).

Quotations

Derived terms

  • multum posse
  • possibilis
  • potēns
  • potentia

Related terms

Descendants

  • Vulgar Latin: possō (see there for further descendants)

References

  • “possum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “possum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • possum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • possum in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

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