postumus
Latin
Alternative forms
- posthumus (erroneously confused with humus)
Etymology
One superlative of posterus (“next, following”) with the last part of -issimus (see there for more). Confer with postrēmus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpos.tu.mus/, [ˈpɔs.tʊ.mʊs]
Inflection
First/second declension.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | postumus | postuma | postumum | postumī | postumae | postuma | |
Genitive | postumī | postumae | postumī | postumōrum | postumārum | postumōrum | |
Dative | postumō | postumae | postumō | postumīs | postumīs | postumīs | |
Accusative | postumum | postumam | postumum | postumōs | postumās | postuma | |
Ablative | postumō | postumā | postumō | postumīs | postumīs | postumīs | |
Vocative | postume | postuma | postumum | postumī | postumae | postuma |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Catalan: pòstum
- English: posthumous
- Portuguese: póstumo
- Italian: postumo
Inflection
Second declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | postumus | postumī |
Genitive | postumī | postumōrum |
Dative | postumō | postumīs |
Accusative | postumum | postumōs |
Ablative | postumō | postumīs |
Vocative | postume | postumī |
References
- 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, 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 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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