postis

See also: postiș and postiş

Latin

Etymology

From either:

• Proto-Italic *porstis, from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥-sth₂-i-s (“standing forth”), from *pró +‎ *steh₂- (“to stand”) +‎ *-is;
• or Proto-Italic *postis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó-sth₂-i-s (“standing upright”), from *h₂pó +‎ *steh₂- (“to stand”) +‎ *-is.

Noun

postis m (genitive postis); third declension

1. post, doorpost, doorjamb

Declension

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

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	postis	postēs
Genitive	postis	postium
Dative	postī	postibus
Accusative	postem	postēs postīs
Ablative	poste postī	postibus
Vocative	postis	postēs

Descendants

• 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)

References

• “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

Spanish

Noun

postis

1. plural of posti

Swedish

Etymology

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

Noun

postis c

1. (previously colloquial, now dated) employee at the post agency

Declension

Declension of postis
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	postis	postisen	postisar	postisarna
Genitive	postis	postisens	postisars	postisarnas

References

• postis in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)