posterior

English

Alternative forms

• posteriour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin posterior, comparative of posterus (“coming after”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪəriə(r)

Adjective

posterior (comparative more posterior, superlative most posterior)

1. Located behind, or towards the rear of an object.
2. Following in order or in time.
3. (anatomy) Nearer the back end; nearer the caudal end of the body in quadrupeds or the dorsal end in bipeds.
4. (botany) Next to, or facing the main stem or axis.

Synonyms

• (located behind or towards the rear): rear, hinder, back
• (Following in order or in time): later

Antonyms

• anterior
• prior

Derived terms

• posteriority
• posteriorly

Coordinate terms

• (human anatomy direction adjectives) anterior,‎ distal,‎ dorsal,‎ lateral,‎ medial,‎ posterior,‎ proximal,‎ ventral ^{(Category: en:Medicine) [edit]}
• (dentistry location adjectives) anterior,‎ apical,‎ apicocoronal,‎ axial,‎ buccal,‎ buccoapical,‎ buccocervical,‎ buccogingival,‎ buccolabial,‎ buccolingual,‎ bucco-occlusal,‎ buccopalatal,‎ cervical,‎ coronal,‎ coronoapical,‎ distal,‎ distoapical,‎ distobuccal,‎ distocervical,‎ distocoronal,‎ distofacial,‎ distogingival,‎ distoincisal,‎ distolingual,‎ disto-occlusal,‎ distoclusal,‎ distocclusal,‎ distopalatal,‎ facial,‎ gingival,‎ incisal,‎ inferior,‎ labial,‎ lingual,‎ linguobuccal,‎ linguo-occlusal,‎ mandibular,‎ maxillary,‎ mesial,‎ mesioapical,‎ mesiobuccal,‎ mesiocervical,‎ mesiocoronal,‎ mesiodistal,‎ mesiofacial,‎ mesioincisal,‎ mesiogingival,‎ mesiolingual,‎ mesio-occlusal,‎ mesioclusal,‎ mesiocclusal,‎ mesiopalatal,‎ occlusal,‎ palatal,‎ posterior,‎ proximal,‎ superior,‎ vestibular ^{(Category: en:Dentistry) [edit]}

Related terms

• See post-
• posteriorize

Translations

located towards the rear

• Catalan: posterior (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 後面的 (zh), 后面的 (zh) (hòumiàn de), 尾部的 (zh) (wěibù de)

• Dutch: achterkant (nl) m, rugzijde (nl) m, f
• French: postérieur (fr)
• German: hinter (de)
• Greek: οπίσθιος (el) m (opísthios)

• Italian: posteriore (it)
• Japanese: 後の (ja) (ushiro no), 後方の (ja) (kōhō no)
• Portuguese: posterior (pt)
• Russian: за́дний (ru) (zádnij), ты́льный (ru) (týlʹnyj), хвостово́й (ru) (xvostovój)
• Spanish: trasero (es), posterior (es)
• Tagalog: hulihan

following in order or time

• Catalan: posterior (ca)
• Dutch: later (nl), posterieur
• Esperanto: posta (eo)
• French: postérieur (fr)
• German: später (de)
• Greek: μεταγενέστερος (el) m (metagenésteros), ύστερος (el) m (ýsteros)

• Italian: posteriore (it)
• Japanese: 後の (ja) (ato no), 劣後する (ja) (retsugo suru), 後れる (okureru)
• Portuguese: posterior (pt)
• Russian: после́дующий (ru) (poslédujuščij), поздне́йший (ru) (pozdnéjšij)
• Spanish: posterior (es)

Noun

posterior (plural posteriors)

1. (euphemistic) The buttocks.

Translations

buttocks

• Dutch: Achterste, achterwerk (nl)
• Esperanto: postaĵo
• French: derrière (fr)
• German: Hintern (de)

• Greek: πισινός (el) m (pisinós)
• Maori: tou, miki, kumu, tāreperepe, kumu, miki, papaihore, remu, tou
• Serbo-Croatian: stražnjica (sh) f
• Spanish: trasero (es) m

Anagrams

• repositor

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Catalan

Adjective

posterior (masculine and feminine plural posteriors)

1. posterior

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Latin

Adjective

posterior (neuter posterius); third declension

1. posterior, more to the back
2. next, following

Inflection

Third declension, comparative variant

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
nominative	posterior	posterius		posteriōrēs	posteriōra
genitive	posteriōris			posteriōrum
dative	posteriōrī			posteriōribus
accusative	posteriōrem	posterius		posteriōrēs	posteriōra
ablative	posteriōre			posteriōribus
vocative	posterior	posterius		posteriōrēs	posteriōra

Related terms

• posterus

Descendants

• English: posterior
• French: postérieur, postérieure
• Spanish: posterior

References

• posterior in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “posterior” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• 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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Portuguese

Adjective

posterior m, f (plural posteriores, comparable)

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

Synonyms

• (following in time): ulterior
• (located in the rear): traseiro
• (hinder): traseiro

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• (Rioplatense) IPA^(key): /poːʱ.te.ˈɾjoɾ/

Adjective

posterior (plural posteriores)

1. posterior, later