posteritas

Latin

Noun

posteritās f (genitive posteritātis); third declension

  1. future time
  2. posterity
  3. offspring

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative posteritās posteritātēs
genitive posteritātis posteritātum
dative posteritātī posteritātibus
accusative posteritātem posteritātēs
ablative posteritāte posteritātibus
vocative posteritās posteritātēs

Descendants

References

  • posteritas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • posteritas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • posteritas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to win renown amongst posterity by some act: nomen suum posteritati aliqua re commendare, propagare, prodere
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