posterus

Latin

Alternative forms

• poster

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pós

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *pósti

Proto-Italic *posti

Proto-Indo-European *-teros

Proto-Italic *-teros

Proto-Italic *posteros

Latin posterus

Inherited from Proto-Italic *posteros.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔs.tɛ.rʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔs.te.rus]

Adjective

posterus (feminine postera, neuter posterum, comparative posterior, superlative postrēmus or postumus); first/second-declension adjective

1. following, next, coming after

   Antonym: anterior

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico 1.15:

     Postero die castra ex eo loco movent

     On the following day, they moved their camp from this place.

2. (Late Latin) inferior

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	posterus	postera	posterum		posterī	posterae	postera
genitive	posterī	posterae	posterī		posterōrum	posterārum	posterōrum
dative	posterō	posterae	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). The form posterus is attested from Late Latin onwards (used by Augustine and mentioned by Priscian).

Derived terms

• posteritās
• posterius
• praeposterus

Descendants

• English: postero-
• French: postéro-
• Italian: postero, postemo, postero-
• Portuguese: póstero, póstero-
• Spanish: postero-

References

• “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