pose

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English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /poʊz/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pəʊz/
• Rhymes: -əʊz

Etymology 1

From Middle English pose, from Old English ġeposu pl (“cold in the head; catarrh”, literally “(the) sneezes; (the) snorts”), from Old English pos, ġepos (“sneeze, snort”), from Proto-West Germanic *pos, from Proto-Germanic *pusą (“sneeze, snort”), from Proto-Germanic *pusōną, *pusjaną (“to snort, blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”). Compare Low German pusten (“to blow, puff”), German dialectal pfausen (“to sneeze, snort”), Norwegian dialectal pysa (“to blow”).

Noun

pose (plural poses)

1. (archaic) Common cold, head cold; catarrh.

Etymology 2

From Middle English posen, from Old French poser (“to put, place, stell, settle, lodge”), from Vulgar Latin pausāre (“to blin, cease, pause”), from Latin pausa (“pause”), from Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis); influenced by Latin pōnere. Doublet of pause.

Verb

pose (third-person singular simple present poses, present participle posing, simple past and past participle posed)

1. (transitive) To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.

2. (transitive) To ask; to set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.).
3. (transitive) To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.).
4. (transitive, in the phrase "to pose as") To falsely impersonate (another person or occupation) primarily for the purpose of accomplishing something or reaching a goal.
5. (intransitive) To assume or maintain a pose; to strike an attitude.
6. (intransitive) To behave affectedly in order to attract interest or admiration.
7. (obsolete, transitive) To interrogate; to question.
8. (obsolete, transitive) To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.

Derived terms

Collocations

Translations

Noun

pose (plural poses)

1. Position, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body).
2. Affectation.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English posen, a combination of aphetic forms of Middle English aposen and opposen. More at appose, oppose.

Alternative forms

• poze

Verb

pose (third-person singular simple present poses, present participle posing, simple past and past participle posed)

1. (obsolete) To ask (someone) questions; to interrogate.
2. (now rare) to puzzle, non-plus, or embarrass with difficult questions.
3. (now rare) To perplex or confuse (someone).

Derived terms

• poser

Further reading

• “pose”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “pose”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “pose”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• opes, ESOP, peso, epos, EOPs, poës, Poes, poes, OPEs, Epos, POEs, EPOs, peos, PEOs, sope

Creek

Etymology

Borrowed from English pussy.

Pronunciation

• (Oklahoma) IPA^(key): [póˑzɪ]
• Hyphenation: po‧se

Noun

pose

1. cat

Inflection

References

• J. B. Martin, M. McKane Mauldrin (2004) A dictionary of Creek/Muscogee, University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 100
• J. B. Martin (2011) A grammar of Creek (Muscogee), University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 310

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse posi, from Proto-Germanic *pusô.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈpʰoːsə]

Noun

pose

1. bag

Usage notes

A pose is a simple, flexible one-room container open or openable in the top. Do not confuse with taske.

Declension

References

• “pose” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French pose.

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: po‧se

Noun

pose f (plural posen or poses, diminutive posetje n)

1. stance or pose

Anagrams

• epos, poes, soep

Finnish

Etymology

From Swedish bås.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpose/, [ˈpo̞s̠e̞]
• Rhymes: -ose
• Syllabification^(key): po‧se
• Hyphenation^(key): po‧se

Noun

pose (slang, Helsinki slang)

1. jail

   Alternative form: bose

Declension

Further reading

• “pose”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Anagrams

• peso

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /poz/
• Homophones: pause, pauses, posent, poses

Etymology 1

Deverbal from poser. Compare Italian posa. Also related with pause.

Noun

pose f (plural poses)

1. installation, the act of laying, putting down (e.g. a building element)
2. pose (posture, way of presenting oneself)

Derived terms

• prendre la pose

Descendants

Noun

pose m (plural poses)

1. (telecommunications) extension (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pose

1. inflection of poser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “pose”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

German

Pronunciation

Verb

pose

1. inflection of posen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Ido

Adverb

pose

1. afterwards

Italian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.ze/, (traditional) /ˈpɔ.se/
• Rhymes: -ɔze, (traditional) -ɔse
• Hyphenation: pò‧se

Noun

pose m pl

1. plural of posa

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpo.ze/, (traditional) /ˈpo.se/
• Rhymes: -oze, (traditional) -ose
• Hyphenation: pó‧se

Verb

pose

1. third-person singular past historic of porre

References

Anagrams

• epos, peso, pesò

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Danish pose, from Old Norse posi.

Noun

pose m (definite singular posen, indefinite plural poser, definite plural posene)

1. bag, sack

Derived terms

References

• “pose” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• påså, pøse (dialectal)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse posi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²puːsə/

Noun

pose m (definite singular posen, indefinite plural posar, definite plural posane)

1. a bag or sack

Derived terms

References

• “pose” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

pose

1. inflection of posa (“man”):
   1. locative singular
   2. accusative plural

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French pose.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: po‧se

Noun

pose f (plural poses)

1. pose (position, arrangement (especially of the human body))

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: po‧se

Verb

pose

1. inflection of posar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

References

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpose/ [ˈpo.se]
• Rhymes: -ose
• Syllabification: po‧se

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French pose.

Noun

pose f (plural poses)

1. pose (unnatural posture)

Etymology 2

Verb

pose

1. inflection of posar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “pose”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10