postis

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See also: postiș and postiş

Latin

Etymology

From either:

Noun

postis m (genitive postis); third declension

  1. post, doorpost, doorjamb

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or occasionally ).

singular plural
nominative postis postēs
genitive postis postium
dative postī postibus
accusative postem postēs
postīs
ablative poste
postī
postibus
vocative postis postēs

Descendants

  • Old French: post
  • Old Occitan: post
  • West Iberian
  • Welsh: post
  • Proto-West Germanic: *post (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “postis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 484
  • postis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • postis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • postis 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)
  • postis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • postis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Spanish

Noun

postis

  1. plural of posti

Swedish

Etymology

post +‎ -is, or perhaps rather from a clipping of postfunktionär +‎ -is.

Noun

postis c

  1. (previously colloquial, now dated) employee at the post agency

Declension

References