postis
See also: postiș and postiş
Latin
Etymology
Uncertain; perhaps from pōnō, or from pro- (“forth”) + stō (“stand”)[1].
Noun
postis m (genitive postis); third declension
- post, doorpost, doorjamb
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or occasionally -ī).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | postis | postēs |
Genitive | postis | postium |
Dative | postī | postibus |
Accusative | postem | postēs postīs |
Ablative | poste postī | postibus |
Vocative | postis | postēs |
Descendants
- Old French: post
- Middle French: post
- French: pôt (dialectal)
- ⇒ Middle French: poteaul, postiau
- French: poteau
- Middle French: post
- Old Occitan: post
- Catalan: post
- Occitan: pòst
- West Iberian
- Galician: poste
- Portuguese: poste
- → Hunsrik: Poste
- Spanish: poste
- → Cebuano: poste
- → Tagalog: poste
- → Welsh: post
- → Proto-West Germanic: *post (see there for further descendants)
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “post”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- “postis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “postis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- postis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- postis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “postis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Spanish
Noun
postis
- plural of posti
Swedish
Etymology
post + -is, or perhaps rather from a clipping of postfunktionär + -is.
Noun
postis c
- (previously colloquial, now dated) employee at the post agency
Declension
Declension of postis | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | postis | postisen | postisar | postisarna |
Genitive | postis | postisens | postisars | postisarnas |
References
- postis in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)