posteritas

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Latin

Etymology

posterus +‎ -tās

Noun

posteritās f (genitive posteritātis); third declension

  1. future time
  2. posterity
  3. offspring

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative posteritās posteritātēs
Genitive posteritātis posteritātum
Dative posteritātī posteritātibus
Accusative posteritātem posteritātēs
Ablative posteritāte posteritātibus
Vocative posteritās posteritātēs

Descendants

References

  • “posteritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “posteritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • posteritas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to win renown amongst posterity by some act: nomen suum posteritati aliqua re commendare, propagare, prodere
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