post scriptum

See also: postscriptum

English

Noun

post scriptum (plural post scripta)

  1. Alternative form of postscriptum
    • 1839, George Gordon N. Byron, Life, letters and journals of lord Byron, with notes, [by T. Moore]:
      Post Scriptum — Long as this letter has grown, I find it necessary to append a postscript ; if possible, a short one.
    • 1904, Ohio state medical society, Transactions of the First-fifty-ninth Annual Meeting:
      Post Scriptum — I regret that time does not permit me to re-write and correct and condense the whole of this communication.
    • 2004, Susan Wise Bauer, The Story of the World:
      Have you ever written “PS” at the end of a letter? If so, you've used Latin words. “PS” stands for the Latin words “post scriptum”, or “after the writing”.

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /pɔst skʁip.tym/

Phrase

post scriptum

  1. post scriptum

Latin

Phrase

post scriptum

  1. postscript, after text, literary afterthought (at the end of any text)
  2. after the written part
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