postremus
Latin
Etymology
From earlier *postrezmo- < *posterezemo- < *posterisemo-, from Proto-Italic *posterisemos. Equivalent to posterus + -issimus. Same development as extrēmus and suprēmus. Compare with postumus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /posˈtreː.mus/, [pɔs̠ˈt̪reːmʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /posˈtre.mus/, [posˈt̪rɛːmus]
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | postrēmus | postrēma | postrēmum | postrēmī | postrēmae | postrēma | |
| Genitive | postrēmī | postrēmae | postrēmī | postrēmōrum | postrēmārum | postrēmōrum | |
| Dative | postrēmō | postrēmō | postrēmīs | ||||
| Accusative | postrēmum | postrēmam | postrēmum | postrēmōs | postrēmās | postrēma | |
| Ablative | postrēmō | postrēmā | postrēmō | postrēmīs | |||
| Vocative | postrēme | postrēma | postrēmum | postrēmī | postrēmae | postrēma | |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Catalan: postrem
- Portuguese: postremo
References
- “postremus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “postremus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
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