posterior

• posteriour (obsolete)

From Latin posterior, comparative of posterus (“coming after”).

• Rhymes: -ɪəriə(r)

posterior (comparative more posterior, superlative most posterior)

1. Located behind, or towards the rear of an object.

   Synonyms: back, hinder, rear

2. Following in order or in time.

   Synonym: later

3. (anatomy) Nearer the back end; nearer the caudal end of the body in quadrupeds or the dorsal end in bipeds.
4. (botany) Next to, or facing the main stem or axis.

• anterior
• prior

• (human anatomy direction adjectives) anterior,‎ distal,‎ dorsal,‎ lateral,‎ medial,‎ posterior,‎ proximal,‎ ventral ^{(Category: en:Medicine) [edit]}
• (dentistry location adjectives) anterior,‎ apical,‎ apicocoronal,‎ axial,‎ buccal,‎ buccoapical,‎ buccocervical,‎ buccogingival,‎ buccolabial,‎ buccolingual,‎ bucco-occlusal,‎ buccopalatal,‎ cervical,‎ coronal,‎ coronoapical,‎ distal,‎ distoapical,‎ distobuccal,‎ distocervical,‎ distocoronal,‎ distofacial,‎ distogingival,‎ distoincisal,‎ distolingual,‎ disto-occlusal,‎ distoclusal,‎ distocclusal,‎ distopalatal,‎ facial,‎ gingival,‎ incisal,‎ inferior,‎ labial,‎ lingual,‎ linguobuccal,‎ linguo-occlusal,‎ mandibular,‎ maxillary,‎ mesial,‎ mesioapical,‎ mesiobuccal,‎ mesiocervical,‎ mesiocoronal,‎ mesiodistal,‎ mesiofacial,‎ mesioincisal,‎ mesiogingival,‎ mesiolingual,‎ mesio-occlusal,‎ mesioclusal,‎ mesiocclusal,‎ mesiopalatal,‎ occlusal,‎ palatal,‎ posterior,‎ proximal,‎ superior,‎ vestibular ^{(Category: en:Dentistry) [edit]}

• posteriority
• posteriorly

• See post-
• posteriorize

posterior (plural posteriors)

1. (euphemistic) The buttocks
2. (mathematics) The probability that a hypothesis is true (calculated by Bayes' theorem)

• repositor

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /pos.tə.ɾiˈo/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /pus.tə.ɾiˈo/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /pos.te.ɾiˈoɾ/

posterior (masculine and feminine plural posteriors)

1. posterior

posterior (neuter posterius); third declension

1. posterior, more to the back
2. next, following
3. further below, lower part

Third declension, comparative variant

• posterus

• English: posterior
• French: postérieur, postérieure
• Portuguese: posterior
• Spanish: posterior

• posterior in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• posterior in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • later writers: scriptores aetate posteriores or inferiores
    

posterior m or f (plural posteriores, comparable)

1. posterior (following in order or in time)

   Synonym: ulterior

2. posterior (located in the rear)

   Synonym: traseiro

3. (phonetics) back (produced in the back of the mouth)

   Synonym: traseiro

• IPA^(key): /posteˈɾjoɾ/, [post̪eˈɾjoɾ]
• (Rioplatense) IPA^(key): /poːʱ.te.ˈɾjoɾ/

posterior (plural posteriores)

1. posterior, later