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English
Etymology
Latin
Noun
possessum (plural possessa or possessums)
- (linguistics) Something which is possessed.
- Antonym: possessor
2013, Kersti Börjars, David Denison, Alan Scott, Morphosyntactic Categories and the Expression of Possession:Turning now to the animacy of the possessum, this is on the face of it less promising as a predictor.
Latin
Participle
possessum
- inflection of possessus:
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
- accusative masculine singular