posterius Latin · revision 32729

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *pos(ti)}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''posterius''' (comparative)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the neuter of the comparative of [[m|la|posterus|t=later, next]], used as an adverb.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan takes [[m|la|posterus]] as the old comparative of [[m|la|post|t=after]], from [[itc-pro|*post-ero-|t=later]]; [[m|la|post]] goes back to [[itc-pro|*posti|t=behind, after]] and [[ine-pro|*pos(ti)|t=after]], comparing [[osc|púst|t=after, behind]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first quotations are in Plautus: in the ''Amphitruo'' a man is told not to put the blame on him later, and in the ''Epidicus'' another says that the others should speak first and they afterwards.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means at a later time, later, afterwards, and second, after someone else.^(OLD 2012) With ''quam'' it is a conjunction, after: in Plautus' ''Asinaria'' a man says “you say that after I already believe you”.^(OLD 2012) Lucretius uses it of the future, thereafter.^(OLD 2012) The TLL quotes it from Ennius and Terence, whose line a scholiast glosses ⟨postmodo⟩.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of later blame and of speaking second.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of the future.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # Later, [[m|en|afterwards]]; second, after another.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''posterius quam'', after.^(OLD 2012)

+ # For the future, thereafter.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[posterus]]

+ * [[post]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}