post scriptum

post scriptum

See also: postscriptum

English

Noun

post scriptum (plural post scripta)

1. Alternative form of postscriptum
   • 1839, George Gordon N. Byron, Life, letters and journals of lord Byron, with notes, [by T. Moore]:

     Post Scriptum — Long as this letter has grown, I find it necessary to append a postscript ; if possible, a short one.

   • 1904, Ohio state medical society, Transactions of the First-fifty-ninth Annual Meeting:

     Post Scriptum — I regret that time does not permit me to re-write and correct and condense the whole of this communication.

   • 2004, Susan Wise Bauer, The Story of the World:

     Have you ever written “PS” at the end of a letter? If so, you've used Latin words. “PS” stands for the Latin words “post scriptum”, or “after the writing”.

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔst skʁip.tɔm/, /pɔs skʁip.tɔm/

Phrase

post scriptum m (plural posts scriptums)

1. postscriptum

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Latin

Phrase

post scriptum

1. postscript, after text, literary afterthought (at the end of any text)
2. after the written part

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Spanish

Etymology

Latin post scriptum

Noun

post scriptum m (uncountable)

1. Synonym of posdata

   Synonym: P. S.

Usage notes

• Usually abbreviated P. S.

Further reading

• “post scriptum”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014