posterior

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.

Noun

posterior (plural posteriors)

1. (euphemistic) The buttocks.

Anagrams

• repositor

Adjective

posterior (masculine and feminine plural posteriors)

1. posterior

Adjective

posterior (neuter posterius); third declension

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

References

• 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • later writers: scriptores aetate posteriores or inferiores
    

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)

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

posterior (plural posteriores)

1. posterior, later