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Where does “possibilité” come from?

possibilité (Middle 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;...

Ancestry of “possibilité”, step by step

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

Words derived from “possibilité”

  • possibility
  • unpossibility
  • nonpossibility
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