Timeline for How do you say "anything is possible" in Latin?
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| May 8, 2021 at 1:27 | vote | accept | Adam | ||
| May 4, 2021 at 21:37 | history | became hot network question | |||
| May 4, 2021 at 14:29 | comment | added | cmw♦ | In that entry, posse is in the infinitive state for dictionary purposes. It is set apart from actual uses. So you would have something like, "Caesar multum potest" --> "Caesar has much influence/power." | |
| May 4, 2021 at 14:00 | answer | added | Expedito Bipes | timeline score: 5 | |
| May 4, 2021 at 13:54 | comment | added | Adam | Poor life choices... No, in all seriousness, I was looking at the idiom example from the entry for possum in Whitaker's Words and he gave the example multum posse, so I modeled it after that. | |
| May 4, 2021 at 13:48 | comment | added | Joonas Ilmavirta♦ | Can you explain a bit how you ended up with the infinitive posse? | |
| May 4, 2021 at 13:30 | history | asked | Adam | CC BY-SA 4.0 |