posterity

English

Etymology

Late 14th century, from Middle French posterité, from Latin posteritas, from posterus (“following, coming after”), from post (“after”) (English post-).

Displaced Old English words such as æftercneoreso, frumcynn.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈpɒstɛɹɪti/ X-SAMPA: /"pQstErIti:/

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• Rhymes: -ɪti

Noun

posterity (uncountable)

1. All the future generations, especially the descendants of a specific person.

Related terms

• See post-

Translations

all the future generations

• Czech: potomstvo (cs) n
• Dutch: nageslacht (nl) n
• Finnish: jälkipolvet pl, jälkimaailma sg; jälkeläiset pl
• French: postérité (fr) f
• German: Nachkommen (de) pl, Nachwelt (de) f
• Irish:

  Old Irish: sílrad m

• Italian: posteri (it) m pl
• Manx: sluight (gv) m
• Polish: potomstwo (pl) n
• Romanian: posteritate (ro) f
• Russian: потомство (ru) (potomstvo) n
• Serbo-Croatian: potomstvo (sh) n
• Spanish: posteridad (es) f