postis

See also: postiș and postiş

Latin

Uncertain; perhaps from pōnō, or from pro- (“forth”) +‎ stō (“stand”)[1].

postis m (genitive postis); third declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or occasionally -ī).

Old French: post
- Middle French: post
  - French: pôt (dialectal)
  - ⇒ Middle French: poteaul, postiau
    - French: poteau
Old Occitan: post
- Catalan: post
- Occitan: pòst
West Iberian
- Galician: poste
- Portuguese: poste
  - → Hunsrik: Poste
- Spanish: poste
  - → Cebuano: poste
  - → Tagalog: poste
→ Welsh: post
→ Proto-West Germanic: *post (see there for further descendants)

“postis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“postis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
postis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
postis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
“postis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

postis

post +‎ -is, or perhaps rather from a clipping of postfunktionär +‎ -is.

postis c

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