Posse

From Old Galician-Portuguese posse (“possession; ownership”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔse̝/

Posse f

1. a surname

• Pose

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “Posse”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “Posse”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “Posse” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Clipping of Possenspiel (Possen (“joke; farce”) + Spiel (“game, play”)).

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɔsə]

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Posse f (genitive Posse, plural Possen)

1. (theater or figuratively) farce, burlesque

• Gerichtsposse, Justizposse, Politposse, Provinzposse
• Possenspiel, Possentheater

• Posse on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

• Possen

• “Posse” in Duden online
• “Posse” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache