potere

From Vulgar Latin potēre, regularization of Latin posse.

• IPA^(key): /poˈte.re/

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• Rhymes: -ere
• Hyphenation: po‧té‧re

potére (first-person singular present pòsso, first-person singular past historic potéi or (less common) potétti or (ditto, traditional) potètti, past participle potùto, first-person singular future potrò, no imperative, auxiliary avére or (as an auxiliary, with main verbs taking essere) èssere)

1. (transitive, intransitive) can, could; to be able to

   Lei lo può fare. ― She can do it.

2. (transitive, intransitive) may, might; to be possible to

• This verb is not used with verbs relating to the senses: Lo vedo. (“I (can) see it.”) Non lo sento. (“I can't / don't feel it.”) However, riuscire can be used in such contexts if one wants to stress the effort made: Non riesco a vederlo. (“I can't see it (much as I try).”)

Including lesser-used forms:

• sapere
• riuscire

potere m (plural poteri)

1. power

• podere
• potersi
• poterne

• potentato
• potente
• potenza
• potestà

• pereto, tepore

pōtēre

1. second-person singular present passive subjunctive of pōtō

potēre (Late Latin, nonstandard)

1. present active infinitive of possō

• puté, putè (alt. spellings)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin potēre, from Latin posse.

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [puˈte]

potere

1. to be able to

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1701: “forme dell'infinito: dare, potere, volere, sapere, vedere, bere, venire, avere, essere; participio passato: bevuto” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “potere”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano