Where does “possibilité” come from?
possibilité (French) comes from Old French possibilité, from Latin possibilitās, from Latin possibilis, from Latin -bilis, from Proto-Italic -ðlis, from Proto-Indo-European -dʰlis, from Proto-Indo-European -dʰlom — Alternative form of *-trom; instrumental suffix;...
possibilité (French): possibility
Definitions
- possibility
Ancestry of “possibilité”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | possibilité | possibility |
| 2 | Latin | possibilitās | possibility |
| 3 | Latin | possibilis | possible, that may exist, that may be done |
| 4 | Latin | -bilis | -ble |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -ðlis | Forms adjectives from verb stems indicating capacity or worth of being acted on |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -dʰlis | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -dʰlom | Alternative form of *-trom; instrumental suffix;... |