possibility
POSSIBILITY
The property of being possible possibilitas (late; to be employed only as philosophical technical term): conditio (a possible case; Cic. C. Rabir. perd. 5 16): facultas or potestas aliquid faciendi (power of doing anything): aditus alicujus rei or aliquid faciendi or ad aliquid faciendum (opportunity or permission given from without; Vid: Caes. B.C. 1 31 and 74; B.G. 1 43): locus alicujus rei or aliquid faciendi (occasion given by circumstances; e.g. locus nocendi; locus vituperandi; locus est amoris augendi). There is no possibility nulla datur potestas. When “possibility” denotes the presence or existence of a thing we must use a circumlocution with esse posse; e.g. he denies the possibility of this idea negat esse posse hanc notionem; so also when “possibility” denotes that a thing is capable of being accomplished fieri or effici posse; e.g. they deny the possibility of a thing aliquid fieri posse negant: not to perceive the possibility of a thing non intelligere aliquid fieri posse or qua ratione aliquid fieri posse: if there be any possibility si potest (sc. fieri; Vid: POSSIBLE).
A possible thing res quae fieri potest.
The property of being possible possibilitas (late; to be employed only as philosophical technical term): conditio (a possible case; Cic. C. Rabir. perd. 5 16): facultas or potestas aliquid faciendi (power of doing anything): aditus alicujus rei or aliquid faciendi or ad aliquid faciendum (opportunity or permission given from without; Vid: Caes. B.C. 1 31 and 74; B.G. 1 43): locus alicujus rei or aliquid faciendi (occasion given by circumstances; e.g. locus nocendi; locus vituperandi; locus est amoris augendi). There is no possibility nulla datur potestas. When “possibility” denotes the presence or existence of a thing we must use a circumlocution with esse posse; e.g. he denies the possibility of this idea negat esse posse hanc notionem; so also when “possibility” denotes that a thing is capable of being accomplished fieri or effici posse; e.g. they deny the possibility of a thing aliquid fieri posse negant: not to perceive the possibility of a thing non intelligere aliquid fieri posse or qua ratione aliquid fieri posse: if there be any possibility si potest (sc. fieri; Vid: POSSIBLE).
A possible thing res quae fieri potest.
possibility: *possĭbĭlĭtas (very late and only to be used in philos. lang., for precision, if at all): Arn. Usu. expr. by fieri posse: to inquire into the p. of anything, *quaerere fieri quid possit necne: there is a p. that ..., fieri potest ut ...: v. POSSIBLE . Sometimes conditio may serve; esp. as opp. to eventus (actuality): cf. Cic. Rab. perd. 5, 16, harum omnium rerum non solum eventus sed etiam conditio ... indigna cive Romano est (Nägels. p. 39).