Noun: postis
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension: Third
Nominative
| Singular | postis |
| Plural | postēs |
Genitive
| Singular | postis |
| Plural | postium |
Dative
| Singular | postī |
| Plural | postibus |
Accusative
| Singular | postem |
| Plural | postēs; postīs |
Ablative
| Singular | poste; postī |
| Plural | postibus |
Vocative
| Singular | postis |
| Plural | postēs |
Sample Sentences
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tenēre postem (to consecrate a temple, or other edifices)
Nouns inflected like postis
subclassis,
birēmis,
novālis,
superclassis,
quadrirēmis,
quīnquerēmis,
classis,
vōcālis,
amnis,
auris,
fīnis,
orbis,
cīvis,
rudis,
nātālis,
sēmivōcālis,
trirēmis,
maiālis,
majālis,
mataris, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
3. Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
4. Proto-Indo-European *pér
5. Proto-Indo-European *-o
6. Proto-Indo-European *pró
7. Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
8. Proto-Indo-European *-is
9. Proto-Indo-European *pr̥-sth₂-i-s
10. Proto-Italic *porstis
11. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
12. Proto-Indo-European *-o
13. Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
14. Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó
15. Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
16. Proto-Indo-European *-is
17. Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó-sth₂-i-s
18. Proto-Italic *postis
19. Latin postis
20. From either:
21. * Proto-Italic *porstis, from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥-sth₂-i-s (“standing forth”), from *pró + *steh₂- (“to stand”) + *-is
22. * Proto-Italic *postis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó-sth₂-i-s (“standing upright”), from *h₂pó + *steh₂- (“to stand”) + *-is.
Verbs referencing "postis"
English Nouns
post, Catalan Nouns
post, Old English Nouns
post, Galician Nouns
poste, German Nouns
First, French Nouns
poteau, Latvian Nouns
pirksts.
Translations