post-

See also: Appendix:Variations of "post"

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pós

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *pós-ti

Proto-Italic *posti

Latin poste

Latin post

English post-

From Latin post (“after, behind”). Cognate with Spanish pues (“well, so, then”)

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /poʊst/
(UK) IPA^(key): /pəʊst/

Prefix

post-

after; later.
Synonym: after-

Antonyms: pre-, ante-, fore-, retro-
- 2020 August 8, Zui, “Controlled Languages — Newspeak”, in The Language Closet‎^[1]:
  The main prefixes in the controlled language include “un-“, “plus-“, “doubleplus-“, “ante-” and “post-“.
- 2024 July 28, Simone Pathe, “Tammy Baldwin looks to maintain edge over top of the ticket in battleground Wisconsin”, in CNN‎^[2]:
  Tammy Baldwin, the two-term Wisconsin Democrat, didn’t attend President Joe Biden’s post-debate rally in the state earlier this month.
(anatomy) behind.
Synonym: retro-

Antonyms: pre-, ante-, fore-

Derived terms

English terms prefixed with post-

post-anthropocentrism

terms derived from post-

Translations

later

Armenian: հետ- (het-)
Catalan: post- (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 後- / 后- (zh) (hòu), -後 / -后 (zh) (hòu)
Czech: po-
Dutch: post- (nl)
French: post- (fr)
German: nach-, post-
Greek: μετα- (el) (meta-), υστερο- (ystero-)
Hebrew: פוסט־ (po'st-), ־בתר
Hungarian: poszt- (hu)
Ido: pos-
Italian: post- (it)
Malay: pasca- (ms)
Portuguese: pós- (pt)
Russian: после- (ru) (posle-), пост- (ru) (post-)
Scottish Gaelic: iar-
Spanish: pos- (es), post- (es)
Tagalog: pagka-
Vietnamese: hậu (vi)

behind

Catalan: post- (ca)
Dutch: post- (nl)
French: post- (fr)
Ido: dop-
Russian: за- (ru) (za-)
Scottish Gaelic: iar-

Anagrams

OTPs, SPTO, spot, TSOP, OSTP, Tops, pots, TPOs, TOPS, stop, tops, Spot, POTS, opts, PTOs

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin post.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˌpɔst]

Prefix

post-

post-

Derived terms

Catalan terms prefixed with post-

Czech

Etymology

Latin post (“after, behind”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [post ]

Prefix

post-

post-

Derived terms

Czech terms prefixed with post-

postkomunistický

postmoderní

postsovětský

Danish

Etymology

From Latin post (“after, behind”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈpʰɔˀsd̥]

Prefix

post-

post-

Danish terms prefixed with post-

postfaktuel

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin post (“after, behind”).

Pronunciation

Audio: (file)

Prefix

post-

post-

Dutch terms prefixed with post-

Finnish

Etymology

< Latin post-

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpost-/, [ˈpo̞s̠t-]

Prefix

post-

(in loanwords) post-

Derived terms

Finnish terms prefixed with post-

postfordismi

posthumanismi

postkommunismi

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pɔst/
Audio (Canada (Shawinigan)): (file)

Prefix

post-

post-

Derived terms

German

Etymology

Latin post

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pɔst/
Audio (Germany (Berlin)): (file)

Prefix

post-

post-
Synonym: nach-

Antonyms: prä-, vor-

Usage notes

It is relatively uncommon to prefix post- to native German words, for which nach- is preferred. While a compound postmittelalterlich ("post-mediaeval") is not altogether impossible, one will normally use nachmittelalterlich. Post- is common with learned words, such as postmodern or posttraumatisch.