posterus
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From post.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpos.te.rus/, [ˈpɔs̠t̪ɛrʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpos.te.rus/, [ˈpɔst̪erus]
Adjective edit
posterus (feminine postera, neuter posterum, comparative posterior, superlative postrēmus or postumus); first/second-declension adjective
- following, next, coming after
- (figuratively) inferior
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | posterus | postera | posterum | posterī | posterae | postera | |
| Genitive | posterī | posterae | posterī | posterōrum | posterārum | posterōrum | |
| Dative | posterō | posterō | posterīs | ||||
| Accusative | posterum | posteram | posterum | posterōs | posterās | postera | |
| Ablative | posterō | posterā | posterō | posterīs | |||
| Vocative | postere | postera | posterum | posterī | posterae | postera | |
- The masculine nominative singular is unattested in classical Latin (compare cēterus).
Antonyms edit
- (following, next): anterior
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- English: postero-
- French: postéro-
- Italian: postero, postero-
- Portuguese: póstero, póstero-
- Spanish: postero-
References edit
- “posterus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “posterus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- posterus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to put off till another time; to postpone: aliquid in aliud tempus, in posterum differre
- for the future: in posterum; in futurum
- (ambiguous) posterity: posteri
- to put off till another time; to postpone: aliquid in aliud tempus, in posterum differre