# poser
## English
### Etymology

From pose +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈpəʊzə(ɹ)/
* (US) IPA: /ˈpoʊzɚ/
** Audio (Mid-Atlantic US):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -əʊzə(ɹ)

### Noun

poser (plural posers)
* (British) A particularly difficult question or puzzle.
* Someone who asks a question or sets a problem.
    Even as a child, she was a habitual poser of difficult questions.
* Someone who, or something which, poses; a person who sets their body in a fixed position, such as for photography or painting.
* (derogatory, slang) A poseur; someone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others.
** 2008 July 9, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, Jul 9, 2008:"My boyfriend, or I should say, ex-boyfriend, used to be all dark and brooding with long, black hair, but now?!" [...] "Um, I'm pretty sure uniforms don't work that way. I think your ex might just be a big poser." "A fact I would be blissfully unaware of if not for these damn uniforms!"

#### Translations
### See also

* faker
* impostor
* pretentious

### Anagrams

* Prose, ropes, S'pore, reops, Soper, ERPOs, spore, Poers, Spero, Perso-, soper, Peros, preso, prose, OPers., pores, Ropes, repos, opers, pro se

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French poser, from Vulgar Latin pausāre < Latin pausāre, influenced in meaning by pōnō (especially its past participle positus). Compare Italian posare.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /po.ze/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

poser
* (transitive) to stop carrying, to put down (something or somebody)
* (transitive) to ask or pose (a question)
    J’ai quelques questions à lui poser.I have a few questions to ask him.
    Puis-je vous poser une question ?Can I ask you a question?
* (transitive) to land (a plane)
* (transitive) to lay, place
* (transitive) to install, fit
* (reflexive) to relax, settle
    Synonyms: reposer, rester

#### Derived terms

* poser culotte
* poser la chique et faire le mort
* poser la première pierre
* poser problème
* poser ses couilles sur la table
* poser ses valises
* poser un lapin
* poser une colle
* poser une pêche

#### Related terms

* apposer
* composer
* déposer
* imposer
* juxtaposer
* opposer
* reposer
* supposer
* superposer

#### Descendants

* → Portuguese: posar

### See also

* demander

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* perso, pores, prose, repos

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

poser m
* indefinite plural of pose

### Verb

poser
* imperative of posere

## Old French
### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin pausō, pausāre, influenced by Latin pōnō.

### Verb

poser
* to put; to place
** ses meins desus lui posa
* to suggest; to propose
* to rest; to recover; to recuperate

#### Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ss, *-st are modified to s, st. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

#### Descendants

* English: pose
* French: poser

### References

* Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX$^e$ au XV$^e$ siècle (1881) (poser, supplement)
* poser on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub