posteritas Latin · revision 31254

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *pos(ti)}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''posteritās''' ''f'' (genitive posteritātis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ A manuscript of Servius spells it ''postteritās''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|posterus|t=coming after]] with the suffix [[m|la|-tās]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan explains ⟨posterus⟩ as the old comparative of [[m|la|post|t=after]], from [[itc-pro|*post-ero-|t=later]], and ⟨post⟩ from [[ine-pro|*pos(ti)|t=after]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[osc|pústreí|t=later]] and [[xum|postra|t=later]].^(de Vaan 2008) Servius explained it as ⟨postera aetās⟩, “the later age”, and Isidore of Seville also discusses it.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler gives Cicero as its first author,^(Köbler 2010) who asks Verres whether he should have considered one year and neglected the interest of the state for the future.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is future time, the time to come, as in the ''Verrines'', and future generations, posterity, as Cicero's “not even the posterity of all ages will forget this” and his hope that the friendship of Scipio and Laelius will be known to posterity.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also descendants, offspring, as in the declamations ascribed to Quintilian, and posthumous fame, as Cicero's “no one of us faces dangers for the state without the hope of posterity”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “progeny, future, offspring”,^(Stelten 1995) and in medieval Latin it is descent and offspring.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the future, of posterity and of posthumous fame.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Future time, the future.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Future generations, [[m|en|posterity]]; descendants, [[m|en|offspring]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ # Posthumous fame.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[posterus]]

+ * [[post]]

+ * [[posterior]]

+ * [[prōgeniēs]]

+ * [[en|posterity]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Döderlein notes that ''stirps'', ''genus'' and ''gēns'' denote a race in the ascending line, the ancestors, while ''prōsāpia'', ''prōgeniēs'', ''prōpāgō'', ''prōlēs'' and ''subolēs'' denote it in the descending line.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}