possedere

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin possidēre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pos.seˈde.re/
  • Rhymes: -ere
  • Hyphenation: pos‧se‧dé‧re
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Verb

possedére (first-person singular present possièdo or possiédo or possèggo or posséggo, first-person singular past historic possedétti or (traditional) possedètti, past participle possedùto, first-person singular future (now more common, especially in speech) possiederò or possederò, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to possess, have, own
  2. (transitive) to master (a subject, language, etc.)

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Latin

Verb

possēdēre

  1. third-person plural perfect active indicative of possideō