postumus

Latin

Alternative forms

• posthumus (erroneously confused with humus)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *postəmmos. See -issimus for more on the second element (-tumus). Compare postrēmus for another superlative of posterus. Cognate to Oscan posmom (acc sg. neuter) and 𐌐𐌖𐌔𐌕𐌌𐌀𐌔 (pustmas, nom pl. feminine)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpos.tu.mus/, [ˈpɔs̠t̪ʊmʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpos.tu.mus/, [ˈpɔst̪umus]

Adjective

postumus (feminine postuma, neuter postumum); first/second declension

1. superlative degree of posterus
   1. last, especially of children born following death of the father

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	postumus	postuma	postumum		postumī	postumae	postuma
Genitive	postumī	postumae	postumī		postumōrum	postumārum	postumōrum
Dative	postumō		postumō		postumīs
Accusative	postumum	postumam	postumum		postumōs	postumās	postuma
Ablative	postumō	postumā	postumō		postumīs
Vocative	postume	postuma	postumum		postumī	postumae	postuma

Derived terms

• postumum

Related terms

• posterus
• postrēmō
• postrēmus

Descendants

• Catalan: pòstum
• English: posthumous
• Galician: póstumo
• Italian: postumo
• Portuguese: póstumo
• Romanian: postum
• Spanish: póstumo

Noun

postumus m (genitive postumī); second declension

1. a posthumous child

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	postumus	postumī
Genitive	postumī	postumōrum
Dative	postumō	postumīs
Accusative	postumum	postumōs
Ablative	postumō	postumīs
Vocative	postume	postumī

References

• “postumus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “postumus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• postumus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• postumus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “postumus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “postumus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “postumus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN