to have; to own; to possess; to get; to have (to experience or suffer from a state or condition); to have (an age); used to form the compound tenses of most verbs, such as the perfect and pluperfect.; to have (to), must
“Near-synonym: posséder”
Synonyms: posséder
Inherited from Middle French avoir, from Old French avoir, aveir, aver, from Latin habēre (“have, hold, possess”), probably from a Proto-Italic *habēō or *haβēō, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰh₁bʰ- (“to grab, to take”). Influenced and reinforced by similar (yet etymologically unrelated) verbs in Germanic; compare Frankish *habbjan (“to have”), Old High German habēn (“to have”), Old Norse hafa (“to have”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌽 (haban, “to have”). See closer cognates in regional lan