possumとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Derived from opossum by apheresis.

発音

• enPR: pŏs'əm, IPA^(key): /ˈpɒsəm/^[1][2]
• 韻: -ɒsəm

名詞

possum (複数形 possums)

1. (US) An opossum, a marsupial of the family Didelphidae of the Americas.
2. Any of the marsupials in several families of the order Diprotodontia of Australia and neighboring islands.

派生語

• brushtail possum
• play possum
• ring-tail possum

関連する語

• opossum

参考

• possum on Wikipedia.
• Diprotodontia on Wikipedia.
• Didelphidae on Wikipedia.

動詞

possum (三人称単数 現在形 possums, 現在分詞 possuming, 過去形および過去分詞形 possumed)

1. (intransitive) To play possum; to feign sleep, illness, or death.

参照

Latin

語源

From Proto-Italic *possom, from *potis (“master in control of”) + *som (“I am”). Cognates include Oscan púttiad (“they can”) and South Picene puti (“I could”).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpos.sum/, [ˈpɔs̠ːʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpos.sum/, [ˈpɔsːum]

動詞

possum (present infinitive posse, perfect active potuī); irregular conjugation, irregular, no passive

1. I am able, I can, I may

   Synonyms: praevaleō, polleo

   • Tunc, modo edere non potuit ― At that time, he just wasn't able to eat
   • Possum Latine loqui ― I am able to speak in Latin
   • Potesne mihi succurrere, quaeso? ― Can you help me please?

Conjugation

This verb is irregular, but resembles sum prefixed with pot-. Several contractions and simplifications occur, however: -ts- → -ss-, -tf- → -t-, -tess- → -ss- (note that potēns does not originate from non-existent *fēns).

In Vulgar Latin, the first person singular is changed to *possō (causing the verb to be treated like a third conjugation verb (base poss-) in the present subjunctive (*possam, *possās)), though the rest of the verb became the second conjugation verb *potēre ((tu) *potēs, (is/ea/id) *potet, (nōs) *potēmus, (vōs) *potētis, and (eī/eae/ea) *potent), based on forms like potuī and potēns, just like velle (infinitive of volō) was reformed to *volēre after forms like voluī and volēns.

However, Osco-Umbrian forms confirm that a Proto-Italic verb Proto-Italic *poteō (“to be master”) (stem *pot-ē-) must also be reconstructed that, although lost in Latin otherwise, appears to have been the ultimate historical source of potuī and potēns.^[1]

• Some passive forms are attested in pre-classical authors (e.g. potestur, poteratur, possitur, possetur).

引用

派生語

• multum posse
• possibilis
• potēns
• potentia

関連する語

派生した語

• Vulgar Latin: *posso (see there for further descendants)

参照

• possum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• possum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• possum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to give a man the opportunity of doing a thing: facultatem alicui dare alicuius rei or ut possit...
    
  • I cannot make myself believe that..: non possum adduci, ut (credam)
    
  • I cannot bring myself to..: a me impetrare non possum, ut
    
  • he is a young man of great promise: adulescens alios bene de se sperare iubet, bonam spem ostendit or alii de adulescente bene sperare possunt
    
  • I have exhausted all my material: copiam quam potui persecutus sum
    
  • movable, personal property: res, quae moveri possunt; res moventes (Liv. 5. 25. 6)
    
  • to isolate a witness: aliquem a ceteris separare et in arcam conicere ne quis cum eo colloqui possit (Mil. 22. 60)
    
  • men of military age: qui arma ferre possunt or iuventus
    
  • men exempt from service owing to age: qui per aetatem arma ferre non possunt or aetate ad bellum inutiles
    
  • by the longest possible forced marches: quam maximis itineribus (potest)
    
  • this can be said of..., applies to..: hoc dici potest de aliqua re
    
  • this can be said of..., applies to..: hoc transferri potest in aliquid
    
  • I cannot find words for..: dici vix (non) potest or vix potest dici (vix like non always before potest)
    
  • without wishing to boast, yet..: quod vere praedicare possum
    
  • that is self-evident, goes without saying: hoc facile intellegi potest
    
  • from this it appears, is apparent: ex quo intellegitur or intellegi potest, debet
    
  • (ambiguous) to be scarcely able to restrain one's laughter: risum tenere vix posse
    
  • (ambiguous) to be scarcely able to restrain one's laughter: risum aegre continere posse
    
  • (ambiguous) to be hardly able to restrain one's tears: lacrimas tenere non posse
    
  • (ambiguous) to be hardly able to restrain one's tears: fletum cohibere non posse
    
  • (ambiguous) to be unable to speak for emotion: prae lacrimis loqui non posse
    
  • (ambiguous) to be unable to sleep: somnum capere non posse
    
  • (ambiguous) to have great influence with a person; to have considerable weight: multum auctoritate valere, posse apud aliquem
    
  • (ambiguous) to have great weight as a speaker: multum dicendo valere, posse
    
  • (ambiguous) to be unable to say all one wants: verbis non omnia exsequi posse
    
  • (ambiguous) to have a powerful navy: navibus plurimum posse