postpono
Latin
Etymology
From post- + pōnō (“place, put”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pɔs(t)ˈpoː.noː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [post̪ˈpɔː.no]
Verb
postpōnō (present infinitive postpōnere, perfect active postposuī, supine postpositum); third conjugation
- to place after: a (in order of importance); b (of order within a text)
- to rate lower or behind, to treat as of secondary importance
- to set aside a person or act
- to turn aside (from)
- to neglect or disregard
- to disparage, belittle
- to postpone
Conjugation
Conjugation of postpōnō (third conjugation)
Descendants
- English: postpone
- French: postposer
- Italian: posporre
- Portuguese: pospor
- Romanian: postpune
- Sicilian: postpùniri
- Spanish: posponer
References
- “postpono”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “postpono”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- postpono in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- https://logeion.uchicago.edu/postponere
- https://outils.biblissima.fr/en/collatinus-web/
- https://www.online-latin-dictionary.com/latin-english-dictionary.php?parola=postpono