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posterior

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Borrowed from Latin posterior (“that comes or follows after; later, latter”).

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posterior (comparative more posterior, superlative most posterior)

  2. (anatomy) Nearer the rear or hind end; nearer the caudal end of the body in quadrupeds or the dorsal end in bipeds.
    Synonyms: back, hinder, rear
    Antonym: anterior
    1. (medicine) Relating to or denoting presentation of a fetus in which the rear or caudal end is nearest the cervix and emerges first at birth.
    2. (botany) Next to, or facing the main stem or axis.
  3. (formal) Following in order or in time.
    Synonym: later
    Antonym: prior

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posterior (plural posteriors)

  1. (sometimes euphemistic, sometimes humorous) The posterior portions of the human body; especially, the buttocks.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:buttocks
    • 2023 December 27, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: the way to Weymouth”, in RAIL, number 999, page 52:
      Stephen reigned from 1135-1154, that nasty period of our history dubbed 'The Anarchy', when forces loyal to Stephen contested the throne with those of Henry I's daughter Matilda, who by rights should have been queen. Stephen, her cousin, plonked his own posterior on the throne.
  2. (mathematics) The probability that a hypothesis is true (calculated by Bayes' theorem).
    Synonym: posterior probability
    Antonyms: prior, prior probability

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Borrowed from Latin posteriōrem.

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posterior m or f (masculine and feminine plural posteriors)

  1. subsequent (following in order or in time)
    Antonym: anterior
  2. posterior (located behind, or towards the rear of an object)
    Antonym: anterior
  3. (phonetics, phonology) back

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Indonesian

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Learned borrowing from Latin posterior.

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posterior

  1. (anatomy, medicine, dentistry) posterior

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Latin

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Comparative degree of posterus, from post.

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posterior (comparative, neuter posterius); third declension

  1. comparative degree of posterus
    1. coming after, later; next, following (of time)
      Synonym: secundus
      1. the later of the two, (of persons) the younger
    2. further to the back, hinder, posterior (of space)
    3. later in position or order of mention, latter
    4. less important, secondary, inferior
      Synonym: secundus

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Third-declension comparative adjective.

singular plural
masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
nominative posterior posterius posteriōrēs posteriōra
genitive posteriōris posteriōrum
dative posteriōrī posteriōribus
accusative posteriōrem posterius posteriōrēs
posteriōrīs 		posteriōra
ablative posteriōre
posteriōrī 		posteriōribus
vocative posterior posterius posteriōrēs posteriōra

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posterior m (genitive posteriōris); third declension

  1. (chiefly in the plural) later generations

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Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative posterior posteriōrēs
genitive posteriōris posteriōrum
dative posteriōrī posteriōribus
accusative posteriōrem posteriōrēs
ablative posteriōre posteriōribus
vocative posterior posteriōrēs
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  • “posterior”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • posterior in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • later writers: scriptores aetate posteriores or inferiores

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From Latin posterior.

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /pos.te.ɾiˈoʁ/ [pos.te.ɾɪˈoh], (faster pronunciation) /pos.teˈɾjoʁ/ [pos.teˈɾjoh]
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /pos.te.ɾiˈoɾ/ [pos.te.ɾɪˈoɾ], (faster pronunciation) /pos.teˈɾjoɾ/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /poʃ.te.ɾiˈoʁ/ [poʃ.te.ɾɪˈoχ], (faster pronunciation) /poʃ.teˈɾjoʁ/ [poʃ.teˈɾjoχ]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /pos.te.ɾiˈoɻ/ [pos.te.ɾɪˈoɻ], (faster pronunciation) /pos.teˈɾjoɻ/
 

  • Hyphenation: pos‧te‧ri‧or

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posterior m or f (plural posteriores)

  1. posterior (following in order or in time)
    Synonym: ulterior
  2. posterior (located in the rear)
    Synonym: traseiro
  3. (phonetics) back (produced in the back of the mouth)
    Synonym: traseiro

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Borrowed from French postérieur, from Latin posterior.

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posterior m or n (feminine singular posterioră, masculine plural posteriori, feminine and neuter plural posteriore)

  1. posterior

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singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative 		indefinite posterior posterioră posteriori posteriore
definite posteriorul posteriora posteriorii posteriorele
genitive-
dative 		indefinite posterior posteriore posteriori posteriore
definite posteriorului posteriorei posteriorilor posteriorelor

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Etymology

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From Latin posterior.

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  • IPA(key): /posteˈɾjoɾ/ [pos.t̪eˈɾjoɾ]
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: pos‧te‧rior

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posterior m or f (masculine and feminine plural posteriores)

  1. posterior, later
    Antonym: anterior

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