Etymology

post-decrement

Today it means: A decrement operation that takes place after evaluation of the expression that contains the variable being decremented. Full definition →

English decrement ← Latin post ← Old Latin poste
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*pós
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pósti
  3. Proto-Italic*posti
  4. Old Latinposte
  5. Latinpost
  6. Englishpost-
  7. Englishdecrement
  8. English todaypost-decrement

From post- + decrement.

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