Word Origin Summary

Possibilis is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *possiðlisProto-Italicinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• posibl

  Welsh · borrowed from

• possibility

  English · derived from

• possibilism

  English · derived from

• posible

  Asturian · borrowed from

• possible

  French · borrowed from

• possible

  Catalan · derived from

• possibile

  Italian · borrowed from

• poscìbile

  Ligurian · derived from

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