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Where does “possibilite” come from?

possibilite (Middle English) comes from Middle French possibilité, 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;...

possibilite (Middle English): possibility; option

Definitions

  1. possibility; option

Ancestry of “possibilite”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchpossibilité—
2Old Frenchpossibilitépossibility
3Latinpossibilitās—
4Latinpossibilispossible, that may exist, that may be done
5Latin-bilis-ble
6Proto-Italic-ðlis—
7Proto-Indo-European-dʰlis—
8Proto-Indo-European-dʰlomAlternative form of *-trom; instrumental suffix;...
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