Word Origin Summary

Posterior is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• posteriore

  Italian · derived from

• posterior

  Catalan · derived from

• posterior

  Spanish · derived from

• posterior

  Romanian · derived from

• posteriorinen

  Finnish · derived from

• posterior

  English · borrowed from

• posterior

  Portuguese · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root