posterior
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- posteriour (obsolete)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin posterior (“that comes or follows after; later, latter”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɒsˈtɪə.ɹi.ə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /poʊˈstɪɹ.i.ɚ/, /pɑˈstɪɹ.i.ɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)
Adjective
[edit]posterior (comparative more posterior, superlative most posterior)
- (anatomy) Nearer the rear or hind end; nearer the caudal end of the body in quadrupeds or the dorsal end in bipeds.
- (formal) Following in order or in time.
Coordinate terms
[edit]- (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, incisocervical, 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]
Derived terms
[edit]- anteroposterior
- apicoposterior
- centroposterior
- distoposterior
- dorsoposterior
- duplicitas posterior
- frontoposterior
- inferoposterior
- lateroposterior
- long posterior ciliary artery
- medioposterior
- mentoposterior
- mesioposterior
- midposterior
- nonposterior
- occipitoposterior
- posterior auricular artery
- posterior auricular muscle
- posterior cerebral artery
- posterior chamber
- posterior cingulate cortex
- posterior communicating artery
- posterior cricoarytenoid muscle
- posterior inferior cerebellar artery
- posterioristic
- posteriority
- posteriorize
- posteriorly
- posterior mal
- posterior malleolus
- posteriormost
- posterior naris
- posterior probability
- posterior scalene muscle
- posterior spinal artery
- posterior superior alveolar artery
- posterior triangle
- posteriorward
- postero-, posterio-
- proximoposterior
- sacroposterior
- short posterior ciliary artery
- sinistroposterior
- subposterior
- superoposterior
- ventroposterior
Related terms
[edit]Translations
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Noun
[edit]posterior (plural posteriors)
- (euphemistic, humorous) The hinder parts of the body.
- Synonyms: buttocks; see also 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.
- (mathematics) The probability that a hypothesis is true (calculated by Bayes' theorem).
Translations
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References
[edit]- “posterior”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “posterior”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Anagrams
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin posteriōrem.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Central) [pus.tə.ɾiˈor]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [pos.tə.ɾiˈo]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [pos.te.ɾiˈoɾ]
Adjective
[edit]posterior m or f (masculine and feminine plural posteriors)
- subsequent (following in order or in time)
- Antonym: anterior
- posterior (located behind, or towards the rear of an object)
- Antonym: anterior
- (phonetics, phonology) back
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “posterior” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “posterior”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “posterior” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “posterior” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin posterior.
Adjective
[edit]posterior
Coordinate terms
[edit]- (human anatomy direction adjectives) anterior, distal, dorsal, lateral, medial, posterior, proksimal, ventral (Category: id:Medicine) [edit]
- (dentistry location adjectives) anterior, apikal, apikokoronal, aksial, bukal, bukoapikal, bukoservikal, bukogingival, bukolabial, bukolingual, bukooklusal, bukopalatal, servikal, koronal, koronoapikal, distal, distoapikal, distobukal, distoservikal, distokoronal, distofasial, distogingival, distoinsisal, distolingual, distooklusal, distoklusal, distopalatal, fasial, gingival, insisal, insisoservikal, inferior, labial, lingual, linguobukal, linguooklusal, mandibular, maksilar, mesial, mesioapikal, mesiobukal, mesioservikal, mesiokoronal, mesiodistal, mesiofasial, mesioinsisal, mesiogingival, mesiolingual, mesiooklusal, mesioklusal, mesiopalatal, oklusal, palatal, posterior, proksimal, superior, vestibular (Category: id:Dentistry) [edit]
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Comparative degree of posterus, from post.
Adjective
[edit]posterior (neuter posterius); third declension
Declension
[edit]Third-declension comparative adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
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Case / Gender | 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 |
Noun
[edit]posterior m (genitive posteriōris); third declension
- (chiefly in the plural) later generations
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | posterior | posteriōrēs |
Genitive | posteriōris | posteriōrum |
Dative | posteriōrī | posteriōribus |
Accusative | posteriōrem | posteriōrēs |
Ablative | posteriōre | posteriōribus |
Vocative | posterior | posteriōrēs |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: posterior
- → English: posterior
- → French: postérieur
- → Galician: posterior
- → Italian: posteriore
- → Norwegian Bokmål: posterior, posteriori
- → Portuguese: posterior
- → Romanian: posterior
- → Spanish: posterior
References
[edit]- “posterior” on page 1554 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
Further reading
[edit]- “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
- later writers: scriptores aetate posteriores or inferiores
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: pos‧te‧ri‧or
Adjective
[edit]posterior m or f (plural posteriores)
- posterior (following in order or in time)
- Synonym: ulterior
- posterior (located in the rear)
- Synonym: traseiro
- (phonetics) back (produced in the back of the mouth)
- Synonym: traseiro
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “posterior”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French postérieur, from Latin posterior.
Adjective
[edit]posterior m or n (feminine singular posterioră, masculine plural posteriori, feminine and neuter plural posteriore)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | ||||||
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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 |
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]posterior m or f (masculine and feminine plural posteriores)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “posterior”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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