possessor

English

Alternative forms

possesser
possessour (obsolete)

Etymology

From possess +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [pʰəˈzɛsə(ɹ)]
Audio (US): (file)

Noun

possessor (plural possessors)

Agent noun of possess; one who possesses
Antonym: (linguistics) possessum

Translations

One who possesses

Arabic: صَاحِب m (ṣāḥib), صَاحِبَة f (ṣāḥiba), ذُو (ar) m (ḏū), ذَات f (ḏāt), حَائِز m (ḥāʔiz), مَالِك (ar) m (mālik)
Azerbaijani: sahib (az)
Bashkir: хужа (xuja), эйә (eyə)
Bulgarian: притежател (bg) m (pritežatel), собственик (bg) m (sobstvenik)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 所有人 (zh) (suǒyǒurén), 持有人 (zh) (chíyǒurén)
Czech: vlastník (cs) m, majitel (cs) m
Dutch: bezitter (nl) m
Finnish: haltija (fi)
French: possesseur (fr) m, possessrice (fr) f
German: Besitzer (de) m, Inhaber (de) m
Greek:
Ancient: κτήτωρ m (ktḗtōr)
Hungarian: birtokos (hu)
Indonesian: pemilik (id)
Japanese: 所有者 (ja) (しょゆうしゃ, shoyūsha)
Korean: 소유주 (soyuju), 점유자 (jeomyuja)
Latin: possessor m
Low German:
German Low German: Besitter m
Macedonian: со́пственик m (sópstvenik), и́мател m (ímatel), по́седник m (pósednik)
Norman: possesseu m (Jersey)
Old English: āgendfrēa (lord)
Portuguese: possuidor (pt) m, possessor (pt) m
Russian: владе́лец (ru) m (vladélec), владе́лица (ru) f (vladélica), облада́тель (ru) m (obladátelʹ), облада́тельница (ru) f (obladátelʹnica)
Spanish: posesor (es) m
Turkish: iye (tr), elmen, sahip (tr), malik (tr)
Welsh: meddiannydd m
Zazaki: wayır (diq) c, waher c

Latin

Etymology

From possessus +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /posˈses.sor/, [pɔs̠ˈs̠ɛs̠ːɔr]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /posˈses.sor/, [posˈsɛsːor]

Noun

possessor m (genitive possessōris, feminine possestrīx); third declension

possessor, owner
occupier

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	possessor	possessōrēs
genitive	possessōris	possessōrum
dative	possessōrī	possessōribus
accusative	possessōrem	possessōrēs
ablative	possessōre	possessōribus
vocative	possessor	possessōrēs

Descendants

Catalan: possessor
English: possessor
French: possesseur
Galician: posesor
Italian: possessore
Occitan: possessor
Portuguese: possessor
Spanish: posesor

References

“possessor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“possessor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
possessor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin possessor.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /po.seˈsoʁ/ [po.seˈsoh]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /po.seˈsoɾ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /po.seˈsoʁ/ [po.seˈsoχ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /po.seˈsoɻ/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /pu.sɨˈsoɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /pu.sɨˈso.ɾi/

Hyphenation: pos‧ses‧sor

Noun

possessor m (plural possessores, feminine possessora, feminine plural possessoras)

possessor; owner (one who possesses)
Synonyms: possuidor, dono

possessor

Contents

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Translations

Latin

Etymology

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Noun

Declension

Descendants

References

Portuguese

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