postis
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom either:
- Proto-Italic *porstis, from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥-sth₂-i-s (“standing forth”), from *pró + *steh₂- (“to stand”) + *-is;
- or Proto-Italic *postis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó-sth₂-i-s (“standing upright”), from *h₂pó + *steh₂- (“to stand”) + *-is.[1]
Noun
editpostis m (genitive postis); third declension
Declension
editThird-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or occasionally -ī).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | postis | postēs |
Genitive | postis | postium |
Dative | postī | postibus |
Accusative | postem | postēs postīs |
Ablative | poste postī |
postibus |
Vocative | postis | postēs |
Descendants
editReferences
edit- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “postis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 484
- “postis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “postis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- postis 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)
- postis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “postis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Spanish
editNoun
editpostis
Swedish
editEtymology
editpost + -is, or perhaps rather from a clipping of postfunktionär + -is.
Noun
editpostis c
- (previously colloquial, now dated) employee at the post agency
Declension
editDeclension of postis | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | postis | postisen | postisar | postisarna |
Genitive | postis | postisens | postisars | postisarnas |
References
editCategories:
- Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin third declension nouns
- Latin masculine nouns in the third declension
- Latin masculine nouns
- Spanish non-lemma forms
- Spanish noun forms
- Swedish terms suffixed with -is
- Swedish clippings
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- Swedish colloquialisms
- Swedish dated terms