adv
Meaning 1
After death.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
posthumously
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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CMU ARPABET: P AA1 S CH UH0 M AH0 S L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adverb
Meaning 2
after death
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- these piano pieces were published posthumously
- he was honored posthumously
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English posthumous Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English posthumously From posthumous + -ly.
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: հետմահու (hetmahu) — after death
- Belarusian: пасмяротна (pasmjarótna) — after death
- Czech: posmrtně — after death
- Esperanto: postmorte — after death
- Finnish: kuoleman jälkeen — after death
- Finnish: postuumisti — after death
- French: posthumement — after death
- French: à titre posthume — after death
- Galician: postumamente — after death
- Hindi: मरणोपरांत (marṇoprānt) — after death
- Italian: postumamente — after death
- Japanese: 死後 — after death
- Polish: pośmiertnie — after death
- Portuguese: postumamente — after death
- Russian: посме́ртно (posmértno) — after death
- Serbo-Croatian: posthumno — after death
- Spanish: póstumamente — after death
- Spanish: post mortem — after death
- Swedish: postumt — after death
- Vietnamese: but see truy tặng — after death
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