possess

Signification (Anglais)

1. (transitive) To have (something) as, or as if as, an owner; to have, to own.
2. (transitive) Of an idea, thought, etc.: to dominate (someone's mind); to strongly influence.
3. (transitive) Of a supernatural entity, especially one regarded as evil: to take control of (an animal or person's body or mind).
4. (also, literary, poetic, reflexive, transitive) Of a person: to control or dominate (oneself or someone, or one's own or someone's heart, mind, etc.).
5. (also, literary, poetic, reflexive, transitive) Of a person: to control or dominate (oneself or someone, or one's own or someone's heart, mind, etc.).
6. (archaic, transitive) To cause an idea, thought, etc., to strongly affect or influence (someone); to inspire, to preoccupy.
7. (archaic, transitive) To occupy the attention or time of (someone).
8. (also, archaic, literary, transitive) To obtain or seize (something); to gain, to win.
9. (also, archaic, reflexive, transitive) Chiefly followed by of or with: to vest ownership of something in (oneself or someone); to bestow upon, to endow.
10. (transitive) To have control or possession of, but not to own (a chattel or an interest in land).
11. (obsolete, transitive) To give (someone) information or knowledge; to acquaint, to inform.
12. (obsolete, transitive) To have the ability to use, or knowledge of (a language, a skill, etc.)
13. (obsolete, transitive) To inhabit or occupy (a place).
14. (obsolete, transitive) Chiefly followed by that: to convince or persuade (someone).
15. (intransitive) To dominate sexually; to have sexual intercourse with.
16. (intransitive) To inhabit or occupy a place.

Concepts

posséder

avoir

s’emparer de

jouir de

être équipé de

être doué de

appartenir

s'emparer de

disposer

tenir

Opposé de

dispossess, unpossess

Synonymes

have

own

hold

occupy

take

obtain

bear

🐻

keep

haunt

get

seize

capture

enjoy

control

carry

acquire

take possession of

associated with

is

belong to

accept

🉑

earn

embrace

enter

enter into

enter into possession

follow

gain

got

had

hug

incorporate

indwell

inhabit

inherit

inspire

master

obsess

one of

overpower

overwhelm

owe

pack

perceive

possession

procure

receive

remove

rule

secure

Traductions

besitzen

poseer

possedere

bezitten

possuir

tener

ter

haben

έχω

posseir

κατέχω

avere

hebben

sahip olmak

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/pəˈzɛs/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: possessen

In summary

PIE word
*pótis
From Middle English possessen (“to have, own; to obtain possession of; to inhabit, occupy”) [and other forms], from Middle French possesser, possessier, Old French possesser, possessier (“to have, own, possess; to dominate”), from Latin possessus (“possessed; seized”), the perfect passive participle of possideō (“to have, hold, own, possess; to have possessions; to take control or possession of, occupy, seize; to abide, inhabit, occupy; to dominate”), from potis (“able, capable, possible”) (from Proto-Indo-European *pótis (“master; ruler; husband”)) + sedeō (“to sit; to be seated; to be established, hold firm”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”)).