"possible" in seven languages
Meaningpossible
Spanish
posible
/poˈsible/
learned
French
possible
/pɔsibl/
learned
Italian
possibile
/posˈsibile/
learned
Portuguese
possível
/poˈsivew/
learned
Romanian
posibil
/poˈsibil/
learned
Catalan
possible
/puˈsiblə/
learned
English
possible
/ˈpɑsəbəl/
from Latin/French · Old French possible, from Latin
English → ItalianpossiblepossibileCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
POSSIBILEM‘that can be (from POSSE 'to be able')’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A bookish word everywhere, so it looks almost the same in all four. Spanish simplified the double s, as it always does in spelling.
English relatives: possibility, impossible, potent, power (via French)
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In a sentence
- es¿Es posible reservar por internet?
- frEst-ce qu'il est possible de réserver en ligne ?
- itÈ possibile prenotare online?
- ptÉ possível reservar pela internet?
- roEste posibil să rezerv online?
- caÉs possible reservar per internet?
- enIs it possible to book online?
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