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English
Noun
post scriptum (plural post scripta or post scriptums)
- Alternative form of postscriptum
1839, George Gordon N. Byron, Life, letters and journals of lord Byron, with notes, :Post Scriptum — Long as this letter has grown, I find it necessary to append a postscript ; if possible, a short one.
1904, Ohio state medical society, Transactions of the First-fifty-ninth Annual Meeting:Post Scriptum — I regret that time does not permit me to re-write and correct and condense the whole of this communication.
1940 December 28, “Jim Owen Offers to Scare Quails and Felt Comes Out With News Chat”, in Charles E. ‘Chick’ Lewis, editor, Showmen’s Trade Review, volume 33, number 23, page 12, column 2:We can’t pass on to another subject until we quote a couple of those “post scriptums” at the end of Jim’s message.
2010, Melissa Glenn Haber, Dear Anjali, New York, N.Y.: Aladdin, →ISBN, page 164:P.P.P.S. Apparantly the rule is also that you are not supposed to write post scriptums in English papers either. So there you go. Live and learn. Or I guess in your case you can die and learn, too.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɔst skʁip.tɔm/, /pɔs skʁip.tɔm/
Phrase
post scriptum m (plural post scriptum or post scriptums)
- postscriptum
1923, La Grande revue, volume 113, page 613:Trop longues ! j’avais souri ; et par manière de riposte je me souviens lui avoir envoyé une lettre qui, à chaque page, semblait s’arrêter pour reprendre avec des post scriptums qui s’ajoutaient les uns aux autres sans qu’il y eût de raisons que cela finit.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1997, Éléments de common law et aperçu comparatif du droit civil québécois, Scarborough, Ont.: Carswell, →ISBN, page 543:
Latin
Phrase
post scriptum
- postscript, after text, literary afterthought (at the end of any text)
- after the written part
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin post scriptum.
Noun
post scriptum m (uncountable)
- Synonym of posdata
- Synonym: P. S.
Usage notes
- Usually abbreviated P. S.
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