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post·hu·mous

(pŏs′chə-məs)

adj.

1. Occurring or continuing after one's death: a posthumous award.

2. Published after the writer's death: a posthumous book.

3. Born after the death of the father: a posthumous child.

[Middle English posthumus, from Late Latin, alteration (perhaps influenced by Latin humus, earth or humāre, to bury) of postumus, superlative of posterus, coming after; see posterior.]

post′hu·mous·ly adv.

post′hu·mous·ness n.

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Adv.

posthumously - after death; "these piano pieces were published posthumously"; "he was honored posthumously"

Translations

بَعد مَوتِه

posmrtně

posthum

posztumusz módon

eftir dauîa

alla memoria

posthumt

posmrtne

ölümünden sonra

死后地

posthumously

[ˈpɒstjʊməslɪ] ADV → póstumamente, con carácter póstumo

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

posthumously

[ˈpɒstjʊməsli] adv → après la mort de l'auteur, à titre posthumepost-industrial [ˌpəʊstɪnˈdʌstriəl] adj [society] → postindustriel(le)

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

posthumously

adv → post(h)um

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

posthumously

[ˈpɒstjʊməslɪ] adv → dopo la sua (loro ) morte

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

posthumous

(ˈpostjuməs) adjective

1. happening, coming etc to a person after his death. the posthumous publication of his book.

2. (of a child) born after its father has died.

ˈposthumously adverb

References in classic literature ?

Whoever reads his posthumously published writings for the years 1869-82 with care, will constantly meet with passages suggestive of Zarathustra's thoughts and doctrines.

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