posterior
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- posteriour (obsolete)
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin posterior (“that comes or follows after; later, latter”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɒsˈtɪə.ɹi.ə/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /poʊˈstɪɹ.i.ɚ/, /pɑˈstɪɹ.i.ɚ/
Audio (US) (file)
- Rhymes: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)
Adjective edit
posterior (comparative more posterior, superlative most posterior)
- (anatomy) Nearer the rear or hind end; nearer the caudal end of the body in quadrupeds or the dorsal end in bipeds.
- (formal) Following in order or in time.
Coordinate terms edit
- (human anatomy direction adjectives) anterior, distal, dorsal, lateral, medial, posterior, proximal, ventral (Category: en:Medicine) [edit]
- (dentistry location adjectives) anterior, apical, apicocoronal, axial, buccal, buccoapical, buccocervical, buccogingival, buccolabial, buccolingual, bucco-occlusal, buccopalatal, cervical, coronal, coronoapical, distal, distoapical, distobuccal, distocervical, distocoronal, distofacial, distogingival, distoincisal, distolingual, disto-occlusal, distoclusal, distocclusal, distopalatal, facial, gingival, incisal, incisocervical, inferior, labial, lingual, linguobuccal, linguo-occlusal, mandibular, maxillary, mesial, mesioapical, mesiobuccal, mesiocervical, mesiocoronal, mesiodistal, mesiofacial, mesioincisal, mesiogingival, mesiolingual, mesio-occlusal, mesioclusal, mesiocclusal, mesiopalatal, occlusal, palatal, posterior, proximal, superior, vestibular (Category: en:Dentistry) [edit]
Derived terms edit
- anteroposterior
- apicoposterior
- centroposterior
- distoposterior
- dorsoposterior
- duplicitas posterior
- frontoposterior
- inferoposterior
- lateroposterior
- long posterior ciliary artery
- medioposterior
- mentoposterior
- mesioposterior
- midposterior
- nonposterior
- occipitoposterior
- posterior auricular artery
- posterior auricular muscle
- posterior cerebral artery
- posterior chamber
- posterior communicating artery
- posterior cricoarytenoid muscle
- posterior inferior cerebellar artery
- posteriority
- posteriorize
- posteriorly
- posterior mal
- posterior malleolus
- posteriormost
- posterior naris
- posterior probability
- posterior scalene muscle
- posterior spinal artery
- posterior superior alveolar artery
- posterior triangle
- posteriorward
- postero-, posterio-
- proximoposterior
- sacroposterior
- short posterior ciliary artery
- sinistroposterior
- subposterior
- superoposterior
- ventroposterior
Related terms edit
Translations edit
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Noun edit
posterior (plural posteriors)
- (euphemistic, humorous) The hinder parts of the body.
- Synonyms: buttocks; see also Thesaurus:buttocks
- 2023 December 27, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: the way to Weymouth”, in RAIL, number 999, page 52:
- Stephen reigned from 1135-1154, that nasty period of our history dubbed 'The Anarchy', when forces loyal to Stephen contested the throne with those of Henry I's daughter Matilda, who by rights should have been queen. Stephen, her cousin, plonked his own posterior on the throne.
- (mathematics) The probability that a hypothesis is true (calculated by Bayes' theorem).
Translations edit
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References edit
- “posterior”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “posterior”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Anagrams edit
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin posteriōrem.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Central) [pus.tə.ɾiˈor]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [pos.tə.ɾiˈo]
- IPA(key): (Valencian) [pos.te.ɾiˈoɾ]
Adjective edit
posterior m or f (masculine and feminine plural posteriors)
- subsequent (following in order or in time)
- Antonym: anterior
- posterior (located behind, or towards the rear of an object)
- Antonym: anterior
- (phonetics, phonology) back
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “posterior” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “posterior”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “posterior” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “posterior” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin posterior.
Adjective edit
posterior
Coordinate terms edit
- (human anatomy direction adjectives) anterior, distal, dorsal, lateral, medial, posterior, proksimal, ventral (Category: id:Medicine) [edit]
- (dentistry location adjectives) anterior, apikal, apikokoronal, aksial, bukal, bukoapikal, bukoservikal, bukogingival, bukolabial, bukolingual, bukooklusal, bukopalatal, servikal, koronal, koronoapikal, distal, distoapikal, distobukal, distoservikal, distokoronal, distofasial, distogingival, distoinsisal, distolingual, distooklusal, distoklusal, distopalatal, fasial, gingival, insisal, insisoservikal, inferior, labial, lingual, linguobukal, linguooklusal, mandibular, maksilar, mesial, mesioapikal, mesiobukal, mesioservikal, mesiokoronal, mesiodistal, mesiofasial, mesioinsisal, mesiogingival, mesiolingual, mesiooklusal, mesioklusal, mesiopalatal, oklusal, palatal, posterior, proksimal, superior, vestibular (Category: id:Dentistry) [edit]
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Comparative degree of posterus, from post.
Adjective edit
posterior (neuter posterius); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension comparative adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
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Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | posterior | posterius | posteriōrēs | posteriōra | |
Genitive | posteriōris | posteriōrum | |||
Dative | posteriōrī | posteriōribus | |||
Accusative | posteriōrem | posterius | posteriōrēs | posteriōra | |
Ablative | posteriōre | posteriōribus | |||
Vocative | posterior | posterius | posteriōrēs | posteriōra |
Noun edit
posterior m (genitive posteriōris); third declension
- (chiefly in the plural) later generations
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | posterior | posteriōrēs |
Genitive | posteriōris | posteriōrum |
Dative | posteriōrī | posteriōribus |
Accusative | posteriōrem | posteriōrēs |
Ablative | posteriōre | posteriōribus |
Vocative | posterior | posteriōrēs |
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Catalan: posterior
- → English: posterior
- → French: postérieur
- → Galician: posterior
- → Italian: posteriore
- → Norwegian Bokmål: posterior, posteriori
- → Portuguese: posterior
- → Romanian: posterior
- → Spanish: posterior
References edit
- “posterior” on page 1554 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
Further reading edit
- “posterior”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- posterior in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- later writers: scriptores aetate posteriores or inferiores
- later writers: scriptores aetate posteriores or inferiores
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: pos‧te‧ri‧or
Adjective edit
posterior m or f (plural posteriores)
- posterior (following in order or in time)
- Synonym: ulterior
- posterior (located in the rear)
- Synonym: traseiro
- (phonetics) back (produced in the back of the mouth)
- Synonym: traseiro
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French postérieur, from Latin posterior.
Adjective edit
posterior m or n (feminine singular posterioră, masculine plural posteriori, feminine and neuter plural posteriore)
Declension edit
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | posterior | posterioră | posteriori | posteriore | ||
definite | posteriorul | posteriora | posteriorii | posteriorele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | posterior | posteriore | posteriori | posteriore | ||
definite | posteriorului | posteriorei | posteriorilor | posteriorelor |
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
posterior m or f (masculine and feminine plural posteriores)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “posterior”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014