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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈpoː.nɛ]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈpɔː.ne]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pōne''' (+ accusative)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|post|-ne|t1=behind, after]], formed like [[m|la|superne|t=from above]] from ⟨*post-ne⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(de Vaan 2008) Both were first adverbs, and the TLL compares [[xum|postne]] of the same meaning and formation.^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|post]] to [[itc-pro|*posti|t=behind, after]] and [[ine-pro|*pos(ti)|t=after]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus uses it as a preposition in the ''Curculio'' (I cannot watch what is behind me) and in the ''Poenulus'' (step back behind us).^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As an adverb it means behind or in the rear, as Virgil has of Eurydice following behind,^(OLD 2012) or from behind, as Terence has of a boy who catches someone by the cloak from behind.^(OLD 2012) Cicero's ''Timaeus'' has it of movement forward and backward.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short find it rare and mostly poetic, and Quintilian already counted it as archaic;^(Lewis & Short 1879) Festus says the ancients used it of place.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Stelten gives “behind, at the back of, after”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, as a preposition.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence, “from behind”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of Eurydice following behind.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian calls it archaic.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # In the rear, [[m|en|behind]]; from behind; backwards.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ===Preposition===

+ # ''(with accusative)'' Behind, in the rear of; to the rear of.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[post]]

+ * [[posterus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}