posteritas
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]posteritās f (genitive posteritātis); third declension
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | posteritās | posteritātēs |
| genitive | posteritātis | posteritātum |
| dative | posteritātī | posteritātibus |
| accusative | posteritātem | posteritātēs |
| ablative | posteritāte | posteritātibus |
| vocative | posteritās | posteritātēs |
Descendants
[edit]- Catalan: posteritat
- French: postérité
- Galician: posteridade
- Italian: posterità
- Portuguese: posteridade
- Romanian: posteritate
- Spanish: posteridad
References
[edit]- “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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to win renown amongst posterity by some act: nomen suum posteritati aliqua re commendare, propagare, prodere
- to win renown amongst posterity by some act: nomen suum posteritati aliqua re commendare, propagare, prodere