postumus

Latin

Alternative forms

  • posthumus (erroneously confused with humus)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *postəmmos. See -issimus for more on the second element (-tumus). Compare postrēmus for another superlative of posterus. Cognate to Oscan posmom (acc sg. neuter) and 𐌐𐌖𐌔𐌕𐌌𐌀𐌔 (pustmas, nom pl. feminine)

Pronunciation

Adjective

postumus (superlative, feminine postuma, neuter postumum); first/second declension

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

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative postumus postuma postumum postumī postumae postuma
genitive postumī postumae postumī postumōrum postumārum postumōrum
dative postumō postumae postumō postumīs
accusative postumum postumam postumum postumōs postumās postuma
ablative postumō postumā postumō postumīs
vocative postume postuma postumum postumī postumae postuma

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Catalan: pòstum
  • English: posthumous
  • Galician: póstumo
  • Italian: postumo
  • Portuguese: póstumo
  • Romanian: postum
  • Spanish: póstumo

Noun

postumus m (genitive postumī); second declension

  1. a posthumous child

Declension

Second-declension noun.

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • postumus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, 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 and Roman 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
  • Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN