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  "normalForm": true,
  "headword": "POSSUM, potuī, posse",
  "etymology": [
    {
      "period": "PIE",
      "form": "*pót-i-",
      "def": "",
      "certitude": true
    },
    {
      "period": "PIt",
      "form": "*poti-, *pot-ē-",
      "def": "'master, in control of', 'to be master'",
      "certitude": true
    }
  ],
  "dataFormat": "cent",
  "meanings": [
    {
      "definition": "To be able",
      "construct": "_",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "alvhqfi",
          "category": "Modal: dynamic possibility",
          "emergence": -3,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "PLAUT. Mil. 531 similiorem mulierem magisque eandem, ut pote quae non sit eadem, non reor deos facere posse.",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [],
            "destinations": [],
            "unspecified": [
              {
                "rel": "fjnkks",
                "cert": true
              },
              {
                "rel": "days",
                "cert": true
              },
              {
                "rel": "oxmog",
                "cert": true
              },
              {
                "rel": "irzuz",
                "cert": true
              },
              {
                "rel": "svxfwtl",
                "cert": true
              },
              {
                "rel": "alvhqfi",
                "cert": true
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "To bear, to endure",
      "construct": "_",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "fjnkks",
          "category": "Modal: dynamic possibility",
          "emergence": -3,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "PLAUT. Stich. 619 (convivio intereris), si arte poteris accubare.",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [],
            "destinations": [],
            "unspecified": [
              {
                "rel": "alvhqfi",
                "cert": true
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "To manage to do something",
      "construct": "_",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "svxfwtl",
          "category": "Modal: dynamic possibility",
          "emergence": -3,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "PLAUT. Cist. 652 persequar iam illum intro, ut haec ex me sciat eadem, si possum tranquillum facere ex irato mihi.",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [],
            "destinations": [],
            "unspecified": [
              {
                "rel": "alvhqfi",
                "cert": true
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "He / she can",
      "construct": "_",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "oxmog",
          "category": "Modal: dynamic possibility",
          "emergence": -3,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "NAEV. Com. 38 nolo ego hanc adeo efflictim amare: diu vivat volo, ut mihi prodesse possit.",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [],
            "destinations": [],
            "unspecified": [
              {
                "rel": "alvhqfi",
                "cert": true
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "It is allowed, fair, appropriate",
      "construct": "_",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "lcvlnhk",
          "category": "Modal: deontic authority",
          "emergence": -3,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "PLAUT. Merc. 450 non potes tu lege vendere illam.",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [],
            "destinations": [
              {
                "rel": "dhi",
                "cert": true
              }
            ],
            "unspecified": [
              {
                "rel": "irzuz",
                "cert": true
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "~ to have to",
      "construct": "_",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "aqs",
          "category": "Modal: dynamic necessity",
          "emergence": 4,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "HIL. in psalm. 118 aleph 8 p. 364, 10 si … angeli parvulorum patrem nostrum cotidie vident …, possumus testimonia eorum metuere, quos et nobiscum peccantibus manere et deo cotidie scimus adsistere.",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [
              {
                "rel": "irzuz",
                "cert": true
              }
            ],
            "destinations": [],
            "unspecified": []
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "It is possible",
      "construct": "_",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "irzuz",
          "category": "Modal: dynamic possibility",
          "emergence": -3,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "PLAUT. Asin. 118 non esse servus peior hoc quisquam potest nec magis versutus eqs.",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [],
            "destinations": [
              {
                "rel": "aqs",
                "cert": true
              },
              {
                "rel": "kiacb",
                "cert": true
              },
              {
                "rel": "osaappu",
                "cert": true
              },
              {
                "rel": "brsbfl",
                "cert": true
              }
            ],
            "unspecified": [
              {
                "rel": "alvhqfi",
                "cert": true
              },
              {
                "rel": "lcvlnhk",
                "cert": true
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "It can happen, be that",
      "construct": "Fieri potest ut",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "kiacb",
          "category": "Modal: dynamic possibility",
          "emergence": -2,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "PLAUT. Persa 173 ovis si in ludum iret, potuisset iam fieri, ut probe litteras sciret.",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [
              {
                "rel": "irzuz",
                "cert": true
              }
            ],
            "destinations": [],
            "unspecified": [
              {
                "rel": "osaappu",
                "cert": true
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "It is possible",
      "construct": "Potestur + passive infinitive",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "dhi",
          "category": "Modal: deontic authority",
          "emergence": -2,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "ENN. Ann. 611 nec retrahi … potestur imperiis. [fragment, modal interpretation is uncertain]",
          "certainty": false,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [
              {
                "rel": "lcvlnhk",
                "cert": true
              }
            ],
            "destinations": [],
            "unspecified": []
          }
        },
        {
          "id": "osaappu",
          "category": "Modal: dynamic possibility",
          "emergence": -2,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "CATO agr. 154 id labrum habeat … ansas IIII, uti transferri possitur.",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [
              {
                "rel": "irzuz",
                "cert": true
              }
            ],
            "destinations": [],
            "unspecified": [
              {
                "rel": "kiacb",
                "cert": true
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "To be strong, powerful",
      "construct": "_",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "days",
          "category": "Premodal",
          "emergence": -3,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "PLAUT. Cas. 282 (ad servum) stultitia est ei te esse tristem, cuius potestas plus potest.",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [],
            "destinations": [
              {
                "rel": "tabrtq",
                "cert": true
              },
              {
                "rel": "bucjgs",
                "cert": true
              }
            ],
            "unspecified": [
              {
                "rel": "alvhqfi",
                "cert": true
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "To have some meaning or value",
      "construct": "_",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "bucjgs",
          "category": "Not modal",
          "emergence": -1,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "VARRO frg. Non. p. 519, 24 quod verbum “censeo” et “arbitror” idem poterat ac valebat.",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [
              {
                "rel": "days",
                "cert": true
              }
            ],
            "destinations": [],
            "unspecified": []
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "To be very powerful, to prevail",
      "construct": "_",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "tabrtq",
          "category": "Not modal",
          "emergence": 2,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "ITALA gen. 32, 25 (angelus) vidit, quia non potest adversus eum (Iacob).",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [
              {
                "rel": "days",
                "cert": true
              }
            ],
            "destinations": [],
            "unspecified": []
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "It is possible",
      "construct": "_",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "brsbfl",
          "category": "Modal: epistemic",
          "emergence": -2,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "PLAUT. Pseud. 633 potest ut alii ita arbitrentur et ego ut ne credam tibi.",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [
              {
                "rel": "irzuz",
                "cert": true
              }
            ],
            "destinations": [],
            "unspecified": []
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}