Posteriorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Latin posterior (“that comes or follows after; later, latter”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /pɒsˈtɪə.ɹi.ə/
• (General American) IPA: /poʊˈstɪɹ.i.ɚ/, /pɑˈstɪɹ.i.ɚ/
• (dialects of Canada) IPA: /pɑˈstɪɹ.i.ɚ/
• (Canada, dialects of the 米国発音) IPA: /pɒsˈtɪɹ.i.ɚ/
• (General Australian) IPA: /pɔsˈtɪə.ɹi.ə/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /pɒsˈtiːə.ɹi.ə/, [pɔ̟sˈtiːə.ɹi.ə], /pɒsˈtiə.ɹi.ə/, [pɔ̟sˈtiə.ɹi.ə]
• 韻: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)

形容詞

posterior (comparative more posterior, superlative most posterior)

1. (anatomy) Nearer the rear or hind end; nearer the caudal end of the body in quadrupeds or the dorsal end in bipeds.

   Synonyms: back, hinder, rear

   Antonym: anterior

   1. (medicine) Relating to or denoting presentation of a fetus in which the rear or caudal end is nearest the cervix and emerges first at birth.
   2. (botany) Next to, or facing the main stem or axis.
2. (formal) Following in order or in time.

   Synonym: later

   Antonym: prior

等位語

派生語

関連する語

• auricularis posterior
• post-
• postical
• posticous

名詞

posterior (plural posteriors)

1. (sometimes euphemistic, sometimes humorous) The posterior portions of the human body; especially, the buttocks.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:buttocks

   • 2023 December 27, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: the way to Weymouth”, in RAIL, number 999, page 52:

     Stephen reigned from 1135-1154, that nasty period of our history dubbed 'The Anarchy', when forces loyal to Stephen contested the throne with those of Henry I's daughter Matilda, who by rights should have been queen. Stephen, her cousin, plonked his own posterior on the throne.

2. (mathematics) The probability that a hypothesis is true (calculated by Bayes' theorem).

   Synonym: posterior probability

   Antonyms: prior, prior probability

参照

• “posterior”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “posterior”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

アナグラム

• repositor, torporise

形容詞

posterior (comparative, neuter posterius); third declension

1. comparative degree of posterus
   1. coming after, later; next, following (of time)

      Synonym: secundus

      1. the later of the two, (of persons) the younger
   2. further to the back, hinder, posterior (of space)
   3. later in position or order of mention, latter
   4. less important, secondary, inferior

      Synonym: secundus

語形変化

Third-declension comparative adjective.

名詞

posterior m (genitive posteriōris); third declension

1. (chiefly in the plural) later generations

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

関連する語

• posteritās

派生した語

参照

• “posterior” on page 1554 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

Further reading

• “posterior”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “posterior”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • later writers: scriptores aetate posteriores or inferiores