Latin

Alternative forms

• posthumus (erroneously confused with humus)

Adjective

postumus ‎(superlative of posterus)

1. last, especially of children born following death of the father.

Inflection

First/second declension.

Derived terms

• postumum

Related terms

• posterus
• postrēmō
• postrēmus

Descendants

• English: posthumous
• Portuguese: póstumo

Noun

postumus m ‎(genitive postumī); second declension

1. a posthumous child

Inflection

Second declension.

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)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “postumus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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
• Andrew L. Sihler (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press