posterior

posterior is a Latin form of posterus, meaning “following, next; (pl.) descendants”. It is the nominative singular masculine comparative adjective or vocative singular masculine comparative adjective or nominative singular feminine comparative adjective or vocative singular feminine comparative adjective.

Found 44 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.112: non mihi quidem. prior enim pars orationis tuae faciebat, ut mori cuperem, posterior, ut modo non nollem, modo non laborarem; omni autem oratione illud certe perfectum est, ut mortem non ducerem …

Plautus, Cistellaria 2.3.615: prior pósterior sit et posterior sit prior?

Vitruvius, On Architecture 10.10.5: Posterior minor columna, quae graece dicitur , foraminum VIII, latitudo foraminis SI, crassitudinis FZ. subiectio foram …

All forms of posterus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.