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bilby
English
Etymology
From Dharug [Term?].
Noun
bilby (plural bilbies)
- Australian desert marsupial (Macrotis lagotis), with distinctive large ears and approximately the size of a rabbit.
Synonyms
- (Macrotis lagotis): dalgite, pinkie, rabbit-eared bandicoot
Derived terms
Translations
References
- bilby on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Macrotis lagotis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Macrotis lagotis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
- Libby
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possum
English
Etymology
Derived from opossum by apheresis.
Pronunciation
- enPR: p?s'?m, IPA(key): /?p?s?m/
- Rhymes: -?s?m
Noun
possum (plural possums)
- (US) An opossum, a marsupial of the family Didelphidae of the Americas.
- Any of the marsupials in several families of the order Diprotodontia of Australia and neighboring islands.
Derived terms
- brushtail possum
- play possum
- ring-tail possum
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)
- (intransitive) To play possum; to feign sleep, illness, or death.
References
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *potis ezom, equivalent to potis (“able, capable”) + sum (“I am”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?pos.sum/, [?p?s?????]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?pos.sum/, [?p?s?um]
Verb
possum (present infinitive posse, perfect active potu?); irregular conjugation, irregular, no passive
- I am able, I can, I may
- 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?
- Si probare possemus Ligarium in ?fric? omnino non fuisse.
- If we could prove that Ligarius was not at all in Africa.
- Tunc, modo edere non potuit.
Conjugation
This verb is irregular, but resembles sum prefixed with pot-. Several contractions and simplifications occur, however: -ts- ? -ss-, -tf- ? -t-, -tess- ? -ss- (note that pot?ns does not originate from non-existent *f?ns).
In Vulgar Latin, the first person singular is changed to *poss? (causing the verb to be treated to be a third conjugation verb (base poss-) for the present subjunctive (*possam, *poss?s), though the rest of the verb became the second conjugation verb *pot?re ((tu) *pot?s, (is/ea/id) *potet, (n?s) *pot?mus, (v?s) *pot?tis, and (e?/eae/ea) *potent)), based on forms like potu? and pot?ns, just like velle (infinitive of vol?) was reformed to *vol?re after forms like volu? and vol?ns.
However, Osco-Umbrian forms confirm that a Proto-Italic verb Proto-Italic *pote? (“to be master”) (stem *pot-?-) must also be reconstructed that, although lost in Latin otherwise, appears to have been the ultimate historical source of potu? and pot?ns.
- Some passive forms are attested in ante-classical authors (e.g. potestur, poteratur, possitur, possetur).
Quotations
Derived terms
- multum posse
- possibilis
- pot?ns
- potentia
Related terms
Descendants
- English: in posse, power
- Vulgar Latin: *posso (see there for further descendants)
- French: pouvoir
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 (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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