posmrtí

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Czech

Etymology

From po- +‎ smrt +‎ .

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: po‧smr‧tí

Noun

posmrtí n

  1. (uncountable, obsolete, rare) afterlife
    Synonym: posmrtný život
    • a. 1853, F.L. Čelakovský, Básně, epigrammy a selanky, V Praze: I. L. Kober, Nové epigrammy, page 22:
      Komu žití za nic nestálo, / Ten dbá o posmrtí as málo.
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    • 1893, Ignát Hořica, tr. Emil Zola, Doktor Pascal, Jos. R. Vilímek: V Praze, page 431:
      Myšlenky na posmrtí ji již tak netrápily.
      Cette préoccupation de l’au-delà ne la hantait plus jusqu’à la torture. (G. Charpentier (1893), page 378)
      She was no longer preoccupied with the haunting, torturing thought of what there might be on the other side of life. (tr. by Ernest A. Vizetelly (1894), page 342)
    • 1933, Břetislav Foustka, tr. Francis Bacon, Lord kancléř Francis Bacon z Verulamu a jeho Essaye, V Praze: Česká akademie věd a umění (Filosofická bibliotéka; ř. 2, č. 9.), page 111:
      neměř své dary množstvím, ale příhodností, neodkládej rovněž dobročinnost až na posmrtí, []
      measure not thine advancements by quantity, but frame them by measure: and defer not charities till death; ((1894) , chap. XXXIV. Of Riches)

Declension

Further reading

  • posmrtí”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • posmrtí”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989