postumus

• posthumus (erroneously confused with humus)

One superlative of posterus (“next, following”) with the last part of -issimus (see there for more). Confer with postrēmus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpos.tu.mus/, [ˈpɔs.tʊ.mʊs]

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

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

First/second declension.

• postumum

• posterus
• postrēmō
• postrēmus

• Catalan: pòstum
• English: posthumous
• Portuguese: póstumo
• Italian: postumo

postumus m (genitive postumī); second declension

1. a posthumous child

Second declension.

• 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, 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 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