postumus
Latin
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Italic *postəmmos. See -issimus for more on the second element (-tumus). Compare postrēmus for another superlative of posterus. Cognate to Oscan posmom (acc sg. neuter) and 𐌐𐌖𐌔𐌕𐌌𐌀𐌔 (pustmas, nom pl. feminine)
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpos.tu.mus/, [ˈpɔs̠t̪ʊmʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpos.tu.mus/, [ˈpɔst̪umus]
Adjective
editpostumus (feminine postuma, neuter postumum); first/second declension
Declension
editFirst/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | postumus | postuma | postumum | postumī | postumae | postuma | |
Genitive | postumī | postumae | postumī | postumōrum | postumārum | postumōrum | |
Dative | postumō | postumō | postumīs | ||||
Accusative | postumum | postumam | postumum | postumōs | postumās | postuma | |
Ablative | postumō | postumā | postumō | postumīs | |||
Vocative | postume | postuma | postumum | postumī | postumae | postuma |
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
editNoun
editpostumus m (genitive postumī); second declension
Declension
editSecond-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | postumus | postumī |
Genitive | postumī | postumōrum |
Dative | postumō | postumīs |
Accusative | postumum | postumōs |
Ablative | postumō | postumīs |
Vocative | postume | postumī |
References
edit- “postumus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “postumus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- postumus 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)
- postumus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “postumus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “postumus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- “postumus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
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