Latin

Noun

posteritas f ‎(genitive posteritātis); third declension

1. future time
2. posterity
3. offspring

Inflection

Third declension.

Descendants

• French: postérité
• Spanish: posteridad

References

• posteritas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• posteritas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “posteritas”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to win renown amongst posterity by some act: nomen suum posteritati aliqua re commendare, propagare, prodere