ὕστερος

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See also: ύστερος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The comparative form of an unattested adjective, with the superlative of ὕστᾰτος (hústatos), from Proto-Indo-European *údteros (higher, outer) from *úd (upwards, away), which would make it cognate with English out, Sanskrit उत्तर (úttara, upper, higher).[1]

Pronunciation

 

Adjective

ῠ̔́στερος (hústerosm (feminine ῠ̔στέρᾱ, neuter ῠ̔́στερον); first/second declension

  1. latter
    1. (of place) latter, coming after, behind
    2. (of time) next
      1. later, too late
      2. (with genitive of object) too late for
      3. (substantive) posterity
    3. (of inferiority)
    4. (adverbial, the neuter ὕστερον is more often used than the standard ὑστέρως)
      1. (of time) later, afterwards
        1. (with genitive)
      2. (with prepositions)

Inflection

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ὕστερος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1539

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