posterité

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See also: postérité

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin posteritas.

Noun

posterité f (plural posteritez)

  1. offspring; descendants; posterity

Descendants

  • → English: posterity
  • French: postérité

References

  • posterité on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (posterité, supplement)
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