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posterus
posterus
Latin
Alternative forms
Adjective
posterus m (feminine postera, neuter posterum); first/second declension
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | posterus | postera | posterum | posterī | posterae | postera | |
| genitive | posterī | posterae | posterī | posterōrum | posterārum | posterōrum | |
| dative | posterō | posterō | posterīs | ||||
| accusative | posterum | posteram | posterum | posterōs | posterās | postera | |
| ablative | posterō | posterā | posterō | posterīs | |||
| vocative | postere | postera | posterum | posterī | posterae | postera | |
Antonyms
- (following, next): anterior
Derived terms
Descendants
- English: posterior
- Portuguese: póstero
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
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “posterus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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
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(ambiguous) posterity: posteri
- to put off till another time; to postpone: aliquid in aliud tempus, in posterum differre