posthuum
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French posthume, from Latin postumus; the h was added even in a Latin erroneous variation posthumus, perhaps by association with humus (“soil (of burial)”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɔsˈtym/, /poːsˈtym/
- Hyphenation: pos‧thuum
- Rhymes: -ym
Adjective
posthuum (not comparable)
- superseded spelling of postuum
Declension
| Declension of posthuum | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | posthuum | |||
| inflected | posthume | |||
| comparative | — | |||
| positive | ||||
| predicative/adverbial | posthuum | |||
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | posthume | ||
| n. sing. | posthuum | |||
| plural | posthume | |||
| definite | posthume | |||
| partitive | posthuums | |||