postulatum

English

Noun

postulatum (plural postulata)

A postulate.
- 1840, Abel Upshur, A Brief Enquiry into the Nature and Character of our Federal Government, Campbell, page 61:
  The unity or identity of the people of the United States has been taken as a postulatum, without one serious attempt to prove it.

References

postulatum in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.

Latin

Participle

postulātum

nominative neuter singular of postulātus
accusative masculine singular of postulātus
accusative neuter singular of postulātus
vocative neuter singular of postulātus

References

postulatum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
postulatum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

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