posteriora
Latin edit
Adjective edit
posteriōra
Noun edit
posteriōra n pl (genitive posteriōrum); third declension
- posterior regions, behind, arse
- Martin Luther in a letter to Philip Melanchthon, 5 December 1521, from the Weimarer Ausgabe BR 2, page 333
- Dominus percussit me in posteriora gravi dolore; tam durus sunt excrementa, ut multa vi ad sudorem extrudere cogar, et quo diutius differo, magis durescunt.
- The Lord has struck me in the posterior with great suffering; so hard are my excrements, that I am forced to push them out with great strain to the point of sweat, and when I put it off, they become harder.
- Dominus percussit me in posteriora gravi dolore; tam durus sunt excrementa, ut multa vi ad sudorem extrudere cogar, et quo diutius differo, magis durescunt.
- Martin Luther in a letter to Philip Melanchthon, 5 December 1521, from the Weimarer Ausgabe BR 2, page 333
Declension edit
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem), plural only.
| Case | Plural |
|---|---|
| Nominative | posteriōra |
| Genitive | posteriōrum |
| Dative | posteriōribus |
| Accusative | posteriōra |
| Ablative | posteriōribus |
| Vocative | posteriōra |
References edit
- posteriora 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)