postumus

• posthumus (erroneously confused with humus)

From Proto-Italic *postəmmos. See -issimus for more on the second element (-tumus). Compare postrēmus for another superlative of posterus. Cognate to Oscan posmom (acc sg. neuter) and 𐌐𐌖𐌔𐌕𐌌𐌀𐌔 (pustmas, nom pl. feminine)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpos.tu.mus/, [ˈpɔs̠t̪ʊmʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpos.tu.mus/, [ˈpɔst̪umus]

postumus (feminine postuma, neuter postumum); first/second declension

1. superlative degree of posterus
   1. last, especially of children born following death of the father

First/second-declension adjective.

• postumum

• posterus
• postrēmō
• postrēmus

postumus m (genitive postumī); second declension

1. a posthumous child

Second-declension noun.

• “postumus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “postumus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• postumus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• postumus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “postumus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “postumus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “postumus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN