posteaquam Latin · revision 31281

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=116–27 BC, Varro|origins=ine-pro *pos(ti)}}

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+ ==Forms==

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

+ It is also written separately, ''posteā quam''.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|posteā|t=afterwards]] and [[m|la|quam|t=than, as]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) ⟨posteā⟩ is [[m|la|post|t=after]] with [[m|la|ea]], and de Vaan derives ⟨post⟩ from [[itc-pro|*posti|t=behind, after]] and [[ine-pro|*pos(ti)|t=after]], cognate with [[osc|púst|t=after]] and [[xum|post|t=after]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler gives Varro as its first author;^(Köbler 2010) the Capitoline Fasti record that Quintus Petillius was killed after his colleague had been elected.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a conjunction of time, after, with the perfect indicative and also the pluperfect.^(OLD 2012) It is also from the time that, ever since, as Cicero's “since I was freed from the great worry of canvassing, I have thought of nothing but the trial”.^(OLD 2012) The TLL notes that some authors, such as Vitruvius and Celsus, use only the joined form.^(TLL)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “after”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero in the sense “ever since”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Conjunction===

+ # [[m|en|after|alt=After]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # From the time that, ever since.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[posteā]]

+ * [[post]]

+ * [[postquam]]

+ * [[antequam]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}