"post-" meaning in English

See post- in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Prefix

IPA: /poʊst/ [US], /pəʊst/ [UK]
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pós-ti Proto-Italic *posti Latin poste Latin post English post- From Latin post (“after, behind”). Cognate with Spanish pues (“well, so, then”) Etymology templates: {{etymon|en|:uder|la:post<id:after>|id=after|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pós-ti Proto-Italic *posti Latin poste Latin post English post-, {{uder|en|la|post||after, behind}} Latin post (“after, behind”), {{cog|es|pues||well, so, then}} Spanish pues (“well, so, then”) Head templates: {{en-prefix}} post-
  1. after; later. Tags: morpheme Synonyms: after- Translations (later): հետ- (het-) (Armenian), post- (Catalan), 後- /后- (hòu) (Chinese Mandarin), -後 /-后 (hòu) (Chinese Mandarin), po- (Czech), post- (Dutch), post- (French), nach- (German), post- (German), μετα- (meta-) (Greek), υστερο- (ystero-) (Greek), פוסט־ (po'st-) (Hebrew), ־בתר (Hebrew), poszt- (Hungarian), pos- (Ido), post- (Italian), pasca- (Malay), pós- (Portuguese), после- (posle-) (Russian), пост- (post-) (Russian), iar- (Scottish Gaelic), pos- (Spanish), post- (Spanish), pagka- (Tagalog), hậu (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-post--en-prefix-en:after__temporally Disambiguation of 'later': 94 6
  2. (anatomy) behind. Tags: morpheme Synonyms: retro- Translations (behind): post- (Catalan), post- (Dutch), post- (French), dop- (Ido), за- (za-) (Russian), iar- (Scottish Gaelic)
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