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"possibility" in seven languages

Meaningpossibility

Spanish

posibilidad

/posibiliˈdad/

fem.learned

French

possibilité

/pɔsibilite/

fem.learned

Italian

possibilità

/possibiliˈta/

fem.learned

Portuguese

possibilidade

/posibiliˈdadʒi/

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Romanian

posibilitate

/posibiliˈtate/

fem.learned

Catalan

possibilitat

/pusibiliˈtat/

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English

possibility

/ˌpɑsəˈbɪləti/

from Latin/French · Old French possibilité, from Latin

English → ItalianpossibilitypossibilitàCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

POSSIBILITĀTEM‘possibility (from POSSE 'to be able')’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

The story

A textbook -TĀTEM word: Spanish -dad, French -té, Italian -tà, English -ty. Italian keeps Latin's double ss; Spanish simplifies it.

English relatives: possible, impossible, potent

Sound laws at work

-TĀTEM: -dad, -té, -tà

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In a sentence

  • esHay posibilidad de lluvia.
  • frIl y a une possibilité de pluie.
  • itC'è la possibilità che piova.
  • ptHá possibilidade de chuva.
  • roExistă posibilitatea să plouă.
  • caHi ha possibilitat de pluja.
  • enThere is a possibility of rain.

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