Given name & surname

Posse

“possession; ownership”

Posse is a surname from Old Galician-Portuguese. It is used in Galician.

Meaning & origin

What it means

Posse goes back to Old Galician-Portuguese posse, meaning “possession; ownership.”

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Where it comes from

Posse comes from Old Galician-Portuguese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

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

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Old Galician-Portuguese

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