Etymology

postapocalyptic

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English apocalyptic ← 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. Englishapocalyptic
  8. English todaypostapocalyptic

From post- + apocalyptic.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.