possessor

• possesser
• possessour (obsolete)

From possess +‎ -or.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [pʰəˈzɛsə(ɹ)]

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possessor (plural possessors)

1. Agent noun of possess; one who possesses

   Antonym: (linguistics) possessum

   • 1998, Dan M. Kahan, Tracey L. Meares, “Law and (Norms of) Order in the Inner City)”, in Law and Society, number 32, page 825:

     When students fear that their peers will report them, they are less likely to display their guns; when students are reluctant to display them, guns become less valuable for conveying information about attitudes and intentions. In addition, the perception that onlookers are willing to sell out possessors counteracts the inference that possessors enjoy high status among their peers.

From possessus +‎ -tor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pɔsˈsɛs.sɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [posˈsɛs.sor]

possessor m (genitive possessōris, feminine possestrīx); third declension

1. possessor, owner
2. occupier

Third-declension noun.

• “possessor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “possessor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• possessor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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• (Greater Poland):
  • (Northern Greater Poland) IPA^(key): /pɔsˈsɛs.sɔr/
  • (Eastern Greater Poland) IPA^(key): /pɔsˈsɛs.sɔr/

possessor m pers

1. (Northern Greater Poland, Eastern Greater Poland) synonym of dzierżawca

• Oskar Kolberg (1877) “possessor”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 35

From Latin possessor.

• Hyphenation: pos‧ses‧sor

possessor m (plural possessores, feminine possessora, feminine plural possessoras)

1. possessor; owner (one who possesses)

   Synonyms: possuidor, dono

• possessivo
• possuir

• “possessor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025