posteri Latin · revision 31006

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''posterī''' ''m pl'' (genitive posterōrum); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the masculine plural of the adjective [[posterus|t=coming after, later]] used as a noun, “those who come after”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The adjective is formed from [[m|la|post|t=after, behind]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ An inscribed ''elogium'' records that a place for a curule chair was given ''ipsī posterīsque'', “to him and his descendants”.^(OLD 2012) Cicero has it of future generations, whom silence could not bury the courage of the soldiers.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense is one's descendants, a family's posterity; from that it is people of later ages in general, future generations, and Cicero also uses it of the followers or successors of a philosopher, as the school that came from Aristippus.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it “posterity, descendants”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of future generations and of a philosopher's successors.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|descendant|alt=Descendants]], one's [[m|en|posterity]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # People of later ages, future generations.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # [[m|en|successor|alt=Successors]], followers (of a philosopher).^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[posterus]]

+ * [[post]]

+ * [[posteritās]]

+ * [[posterior]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}