Posthumous

Definition: Posthumous

Posthumous

Adjective

1. Occurring after a person's death; (in the case of a child) born after the father's death; "a posthumous award"; "a posthumous book"; "a posthumous child".

Date "posthumous" was first used: sometime in the mid-15th century. (references)

Etymology: Posthumous \Post"hu*mous\, adjective. [Latin expression posthumus, postumus, properly, last; hence, late born (applied to children born after the father's death, or after he had made his will), superl. of posterus, posterior. See Posterior.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Mining	In tectonics, said of a recurrence of forces and movement along lines orover areas affected by similar forces in a previous period; overprint. (references)
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Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Lateness	Adjective: late, tardy, slow, behindhand, serotine, belated, postliminious, posthumous, backward, unpunctual, untimely; delayed, postponed; dilatory; (slow); delayed; Verb: in abeyance.
Posteriority	Postdiluvian; puisne; posthumous; future; afterdinner, postprandial.
Repute	Memory, posthumous fame, niche in the temple of fame; immortality, immortal name; magni nominis umbra.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Posthumous

English words defined with "posthumous": Posthumed, Postumous. (references)

Specialty definitions using "posthumous": Gama. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Today awarded posthumous secondary order of conspicuous merit second class. (Nineteen Eighty-Four; writing credit: Jonathan Gems; George Orwell)
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Domain	Title
Books	After the Funeral: The Posthumous Adventures of Famous Corpses (reference) Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion: The Posthumous Essays of the Immortality of the Soul and of Suicide (reference) Elvis After Elvis: The Posthumous Career of a Living Legend (reference) Rescue for the Dead: The Posthumous Salvation of Non-Christians in Early Christianity (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology) (reference) The Man Without Qualities Vol. 2: Into the Millennium, from the Posthumous Papers (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Posthumous (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Figure 2. Six's thermometer devised by James Six in 1782. Six devised maximum and minimum reading thermometers and in a posthumous publication (1794) suggeste d the adaptation of the maximum/minimum reading thermometers for use in the deep sea. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.
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Author	Quotation
Charles Caleb Colton	Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who. when alive, would not have contributed.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Cote D'ivoire	Literary copyrights are protected for fifty years following the author's death (or posthumous publication). (references)
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"Posthumous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.22% of the time. "Posthumous" is used about 128 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	99.22%	127	28,395
Noun (proper)	0.78%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	128	N/A

Expressions using "posthumous": posthumous birth ♦ posthumous fame ♦ posthumous reputation. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "posthumous": pre-posthumous.
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Language		Translations for "posthumous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		postum, i lindur pas vdekjes së babait. (various references)

Arabic		‏كتاب منشور بعد وفاة مؤلفه, ‏مولود بعد وفاة أبيه, ‏مولود بعد الموت, ‏بعد الوفاة. (various references)

Bulgarian		роден след смъртта на бащата, посмъртен. (various references)

Chinese		謚 (confer such title, lies, posthumous title, to lie), 諡 (confer such title, posthumous title). (various references)

Czech		posmrtný (postmortem), pohrobní. (various references)

Dutch		postuum, na de dood. (various references)

Farsi		منتشرشده پس ازمرگ نویسنده . (various references)

Finnish		kuolemanvarais-, kuoleman varalta. (various references)

French		posthume, � titre posthume. (various references)

German		postum (posthumously), posthum (posthumously). (various references)

Greek		μεταθανάτιοσ (post mortem). (various references)

Hebrew		שלאחר �"מות. (various references)

Hungarian		posztumusz, hátrahagyott. (various references)

Indonesian		anumerta. (various references)

Italian		postumo (after effect), a titolo postumo. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		贈号 (posthumous name), 信女 (title affixed to woman's posthumous Buddhist name), 忘れ形見 (keepsake, memento, posthumous child, souvenir), 六�" (six posthumous worlds), 位記追贈 (conferment of posthumous rank), 余� � (posthumous honors), �'名 (posthumous Buddhist name), 死後に位�'贈る (to confer a posthumous rank), 法名 (priest's name or posthumous Buddhist name), 信士 (title affixed to man's posthumous Buddhist name), 贈り名 (posthumous name), 遺草 (posthumous works), 贈位 (conferral of a posthumous rank), 追号 (a name given to the deceased, posthumous name or title), 謚号 (one's posthumous name), 遺子 (posthumous child), 遺作 (posthumous works), 遺書 (posthumous writings), 遺稿 (posthumous manuscripts), 遺著 (posthumous work), 遺� (posthumous song or poem), 法号 (priest's name or posthumous Buddhist name). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		かいみょう (posthumous Buddhist name), ろくどう (six posthumous worlds), わすれがたみ (keepsake, memento, posthumous child, souvenir), いし (chair, couch, death by hanging, doctor, dying wish, having a person under one's control, intention, office, physician, position, posthumous child, purpose, ruins, seat, stone, volition, will), いえい (portrait of deceased person, posthumous song or poem, staying at home), いちょ (posthumous work), い�"う (authority, clothes rack, great deed, great effect, hereafter, idea, inclination, influence, intention, lingering odor of giver, on and after, perfume on the clothing, posthumous manuscripts, power, remains, switching over to, thereafter, to relax, to repose, to rest, transposition, works following the deceased), いさく (posthumous works), いしょ (book of omens appended to Confucian Chinese classics, medical book, posthumous writings), よえい (posthumous honors), いそう (phase, posthumous works, removal, transfer, transport), ぞうい (conferral of a posthumous rank), ほうみょう (priest's name or posthumous Buddhist name), ほう�"う (priest's name or posthumous Buddhist name, seam, suture), つい�"う (a name given to the deceased, posthumous name or title), し�"じ (acupuncture, emperor's seal, kanji made in Japan, mind, padding, sacred jewels, serving as a retainer, Shinto rituals, title affixed to man's posthumous Buddhist name), し�"にょ (absolute reality, the absolute, title affixed to woman's posthumous Buddhist name), し�"にくらい�'おくる (to confer a posthumous rank), し�"う (one's posthumous name), おくりな (posthumous name), ぞう�"う (posthumous name), いきついそう (conferment of posthumous rank). (various references)

Manx		lurg baase, erreish da baase (post mortem). (various references)

Pig Latin		osthumouspay

Portuguese		póstumo, a título póstumo. (various references)

Romanian		postum (posthumously). (various references)

Russian		посмертный (post mortem, postmortem, post-mortem). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		posmrtni (obituary, post mortem), posmrtan (mortal). (various references)

Spanish		póstumo. (various references)

Swedish		postum, efterlämnade. (various references)

Turkish		babasının ölümünden sonra doğan, öldükten sonra olan, öldükten sonra gerçekleşen, ölümünden sonra yayınlanan. (various references)

Ukrainian		посмертний (necrologic, post mortem). (various references)

Vietnamese		sau khi chết (post mortem). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	postumus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "posthumous": posthumously, posthumousness, posthumousnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Posthumous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: posthumus. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "posthumous" (pronounced pÄ"skhuhmus)
3	-m u s	animus, anonymous, autonomous, blasphemous, dermis, enormous, epidermis, famous, grimace, hippopotamus, humus, ignoramus, infamous, isthmus, litmus, magnanimous, mandamus, monogamous, polygamous, premise, primus, promise, pumice, ramus, Shamas, shamus, synonymous, thalamus, thermos, unanimous, venomous.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "h-m-o-o-p-s-s-t-u-u"
	-2 letters: upshoots.
	-3 letters: opossum, outpush, smooths, spumous, upshoot, upshots.
	-4 letters: mouths, musths, oomphs, osmous, photos, possum, shoots, shouts, smooth, sooths, souths, spouts, sputum, stomps, stoops, stoups, stumps, thumps, tophus, tossup, upmost, upshot, uptoss.
	-5 letters: homos, hoops, hoots, hosts, humps, humus, moots, mosso, mosts, moths, mouth, musth, musts, oomph, ouphs, ousts, photo, phots, phuts, poohs, posts.
	Words containing the letters "h-m-o-o-p-s-s-t-u-u"
	+2 letters: posthumously.
	+4 letters: posthumousness.
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