posthodiernal

English

Etymology

post- +‎ hodiernal

Adjective

posthodiernal (not comparable)

1. (grammar) Relating to future time later than today.
   • 1984, Brian Butterworth, Bernard Comrie, Östen Dahl, Explanations for Language Universals, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, page 113:

     As an example of a language which has an opposition between hodiernal and posthodiernal future, where the hodiernal future is distinct from the present tense(s), we may mention Aghem (Bantu, Hyman 1979).

   • 2015, Doris L. Payne, Shahar Shirtz, Beyond Aspect: The expression of discourse functions in African languages, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 170:

     Posthodiernal na- does not appear in my narrative corpus outside of the quoted speech of characters.

   • 2016, Joseph Cherian, Idiotic English and Idiomatic English: The Professional’s Guide to Using English Intelligently, Influentially, and Internationally, WestBow Press, →ISBN:

     Hodiernal future tense: I will love her sometime today.
     Posthodiernal conditional perfect tense: I would have loved her sometime after today.
     Hesternal past tense: I loved her early today.
     Prehesternal past tense: I loved her earlier today.

Anagrams

• anterolophids