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English
Etymology
From possess + -or.
Pronunciation
Noun
possessor (plural possessors)
- Agent noun of possess; one who possesses
- Antonym: (linguistics) possessum
Translations
One who possesses
- Arabic: صَاحِب m (ṣāḥib), صَاحِبَة f (ṣāḥiba), ذُو (ar) m (ḏū), ذَات f (ḏāt), حَائِز m (ḥāʔiz), مَالِك (ar) m (mālik)
- Azerbaijani: sahib (az)
- Bashkir: хужа (xuja), эйә (eyə)
- Bulgarian: притежател (bg) m (pritežatel), собственик (bg) m (sobstvenik)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 所有人 (zh) (suǒyǒurén), 持有人 (zh) (chíyǒurén)
- Czech: vlastník (cs) m, majitel (cs) m
- Dutch: bezitter (nl) m
- Finnish: haltija (fi)
- French: possesseur (fr) m, possessrice (fr) f
- German: Besitzer (de) m, Inhaber (de) m
- Greek:
- Ancient: κτήτωρ m (ktḗtōr)
- Hungarian: birtokos (hu)
- Indonesian: pemilik (id)
- Japanese: 所有者 (ja) (しょゆうしゃ, shoyūsha)
- Korean: 소유주 (soyuju), 점유자 (jeomyuja)
- Latin: possessor m
- Low German:
- German Low German: Besitter m
- Macedonian: со́пственик m (sópstvenik), и́мател m (ímatel), по́седник m (pósednik)
- Norman: possesseu m (Jersey)
- Old English: āgendfrēa (lord)
- Ottoman Turkish: صاحب (sâhib)
- Portuguese: possuidor (pt) m, possessor (pt) m
- Russian: владе́лец (ru) m (vladélec), владе́лица (ru) f (vladélica), облада́тель (ru) m (obladátelʹ), облада́тельница (ru) f (obladátelʹnica)
- Spanish: posesor (es) m
- Turkish: iye (tr), elmen, sahip (tr), malik (tr)
- Welsh: meddiannydd m
- Zazaki: wayır (diq) c, waher c
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Latin
Etymology
From possessus + -tor.
Pronunciation
Noun
possessor m (genitive possessōris, feminine possestrīx); third declension
- possessor, owner
- occupier
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “possessor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “possessor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- possessor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Polish
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
Noun
possessor m pers
- (Northern Greater Poland, Eastern Greater Poland) Synonym of dzierżawca
Further reading
- Oskar Kolberg (1877) “possessor”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 35
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin possessor.
Pronunciation
Noun
possessor m (plural possessores, feminine possessora, feminine plural possessoras)
- possessor; owner (one who possesses)
- Synonyms: possuidor, dono
Further reading