postulatum

English

Noun

postulatum (plural postulata)

1. A postulate.
   • 1840, Abel Upshur, A Brief Enquiry into the Nature and Character of our Federal Government, Campbell, page 61:

     The unity or identity of the people of the United States has been taken as a postulatum, without one serious attempt to prove it.

References

• postulatum in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) postulātum

1. nominative neuter singular of postulātus
2. accusative masculine singular of postulātus
3. accusative neuter singular of postulātus
4. vocative neuter singular of postulātus

References

• “postulatum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “postulatum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers