English search results for: posterity

#1

noun

  • declension: 2nd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. descendants (pl.)
  2. posterity, future generations/ages
  3. successors
  4. the future
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#2

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. future time
  2. posterity
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#3

noun

  • declension: 2nd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. posterity (pl.), descendants
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Charles Beard, “Cassell’s Latin Dictionary”, 1892 (CAS)
#4

adjective

Definitions:

  1. (i.e. posterity of Ruth/Jesse)
  2. of lineage of Christ
  • Age: Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
  • Area: Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#5

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: common

Definitions:

  1. (pl.) posterity, descendants
  2. descendant
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)