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Latin
Etymology
A univerbation of post (“after”) and quam (“than”).
Pronunciation
Conjunction
postquam
- after
100 BCE – 44 BCE,
Julius Caesar,
Commentarii de bello gallico 1.27.3:
- eō postquam Caesar pervēnit, obsidēs, arma, servōs, qui ad eōs perfūgissent, poposcit.
- After Caesar had come thither, he demanded hostages, their arms, and the slaves who had deserted to them.
- since
38 CE – 104 CE,
Martial,
Spectactula 1.18.6:
- postquam inter nōs est plūs feritātis habet.
- since she has been among us, she has more of wildness
References
- “postquam”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “postquam”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- postquam 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)
- postquam in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- postquam in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung