postis

postis

1. Romi-script form of पस्तीस (pastīs)

From either:

• Proto-Italic *porstis, from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥-sth₂-i-s (“standing forth”), from *pró +‎ *steh₂- (“to stand”) +‎ *-is;
• or Proto-Italic *postis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó-sth₂-i-s (“standing upright”), from *h₂pó +‎ *steh₂- (“to stand”) +‎ *-is.^[1]

postis m (genitive postis); third declension

1. post, doorpost, doorjamb

   tenēre postem ― to consecrate a temple, or other edifices

2. (by extension, chiefly in the plural) a door

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or occasionally -ī).

• “postis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “postis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "postis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• postis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “postis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

postis

1. plural of postil.

postis

1. plural of posti

post +‎ -is, or perhaps rather from a clipping of postfunktionär +‎ -is.

postis c

1. (previously colloquial, now dated) employee at the post agency

• postis in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)