impossibilitas

Latin

Alternative forms

• inpossibilitās

Etymology

From impossibilis (“impossible”) +‎ -tās, from possibilis (“possible”), from possum (“I can”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /im.pos.siˈbi.li.taːs/, [ɪmpɔs̠ːɪˈbɪlʲɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /im.pos.siˈbi.li.tas/, [imposːiˈbiːlit̪äs]

Noun

impossibilitās f (genitive impossibilitātis); third declension

1. impossibility

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	impossibilitās	impossibilitātēs
genitive	impossibilitātis	impossibilitātum
dative	impossibilitātī	impossibilitātibus
accusative	impossibilitātem	impossibilitātēs
ablative	impossibilitāte	impossibilitātibus
vocative	impossibilitās	impossibilitātēs

Descendants

• Catalan: impossibilitat
• French: impossibilité
• Galician: imposibilidade
• Italian: impossibilità
• Portuguese: impossibilidade
• Spanish: imposibilidad

References

• “impossibilitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• impossibilitas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• impossibilitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.po.si.biˈli.tɐs/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.po.si.biˈli.tɐs/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ĩ.po.si.biˈli.tɐʃ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.po.si.biˈli.tas/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.pu.si.biˈli.tɐʃ/ [ĩ.pu.si.βiˈli.tɐʃ]

Verb

impossibilitas

1. second-person singular present indicative of impossibilitar