Oxford Latin Dictionary
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post behind
post is a Latin Preposition that primarily means behind.
Definitions for post
Wheelock's Latin
Preposition
- 1
+acc., after, behind
English derivatives:
posterity posterior posthumous post mortem P.M. = post meridiem preposterous post- as a prefix post-graduate postlude postwar
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Preposition
- 1
In or to the rear of, behind; behind one's back; sim. (b) (topog.) on the other or far side of, beyond, over.
- 2
At a time subsequent to, after. (b) for or in the period subsequent to, since; (and sim.), within the memory of man, since the beginning of history.
- 3
At the conclusion of (a period of time, activity, etc.), after. (b) after (a date, etc., marking the end of an interval).
- 4
(in pregn. uses) (a) After and in view of, after. (b) after and notwithstanding, after.
- 5
Subsequent or next in (temporal or other) sequence to, (next) after. (b) (w. ref. to an order of preference, etc.); (w. vbs. of thinking or regarding) of less value or importance than, second to, after.
Sentences with post
Latin to English
Post multa bella tempora sunt mala.Compare Times are bad after many wars.
Post multās hōrās līberātī sumus (līberābimur).Compare After many hours we were freed (shall be freed).
Spēs vīvendī post mortem multōs hortātur.Compare The hope of living after death encourages many people.
Multīs post annīs...pervēnit.Compare He arrived many years later.
Post mortem nihil est ipsaque mors nihil, velocis spatii meta novissima.Compare There is nothing after death, and death itself is nothing, the final goal of a course full swiftly run.
Eo, et post paucus dies alius decem legatus sui cum adduco.Compare They went, and a few days afterwards brought ten other ambassador with them.
Post haec cīvēs quī tyrannum timuērunt ex patriā suā in cīvitātem nostram ductī sunt.Compare After this (lit. these things) the citizens who feared the tyrant were led from their own country into our state.
At annus post Paullus pareo auspicium.Compare But a year later Paullus obeyed the auspices.
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 45.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1412.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 120.
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Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "post (prep.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed December 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/post.
Entry created on . Last updated on .
Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 45.post on page 45
