Etymology

post-increment

Today it means: An increment operation that takes place after evaluation of the expression that contains the variable being incremented. Full definition →

English increment ← 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. Englishincrement
  8. English todaypost-increment

From post- + increment.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.