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- Latin · borrowed fromin posse
- English todayin posse
Borrowed from Latin in posse, from in (“in”) + posse (“to be able; can”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
in posse
Today it means: In possibility, having a potential to exist, in potential but not in actuality, (contradistinguished by in esse) Full definition →
Latin in posse