posthac Latin · revision 31060

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la post, la hic}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [pɔsˈtʰaːk], [pɔsˈtaːk]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [posˈtak], [posˈtak]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''posthāc''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a compound of [[m|la|post|t=after]] and [[m|la|hāc]], the feminine ablative of [[m|la|hic|t=this]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan traces ⟨post⟩ to [[itc-pro|*posti|t=behind, after]] and [[ine-pro|*pos(ti)|t=after]], with [[osc|púst|t=after]] and [[xum|pus|t=after]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler gives Plautus as its first author.^(Köbler 2010) In the ''Menaechmi'' a courtesan tells Menaechmus “find another one from now on” (''aliam posthāc invenītō'').^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is “from now on, henceforth”, in comedy (Plautus, Terence), in the ''Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus'' and in Cicero.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Looking back on the past it also means “from then on, thereafter”, as in Cicero's ''Pro Murena'' and in Tacitus.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “after this time, hereafter, afterwards”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of the future.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of “thereafter”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # After this time, [[m|en|henceforth]], [[m|en|hereafter]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # From then on, [[m|en|thereafter]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[post]]

+ * [[hic]]

+ * [[anteā]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}