postulatum

English

Noun

postulatum (plural postulata)

1. A postulate.
   • 1840, Abel Upshur, A Brief Enquiry into the Nature and Character of our Federal Government, Campbell, page 61:

     The unity or identity of the people of the United States has been taken as a postulatum, without one serious attempt to prove it.

References

• postulatum in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.

Latin

Noun

postulātum n (genitive postulātī); second declension

1. a demand, request

   Synonyms: petītiō, supplicātiō, supplicium, precātiō, rogātiō, prex

2. a claim, complain

   Synonyms: querella, petītiō

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	postulātum	postulāta
Genitive	postulātī	postulātōrum
Dative	postulātō	postulātīs
Accusative	postulātum	postulāta
Ablative	postulātō	postulātīs
Vocative	postulātum	postulāta

Participle

postulātum

1. inflection of postulātus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

References

• postulatum in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
• “postulatum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “postulatum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers