Etymology

postbop

P3O1S1T1B3O1P3

Today it means: A form of small-group jazz music that emerged in the early 1960s, under the influence of artists such as Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock Full definition →

English bop ← 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. Englishbop
  8. English todaypostbop

From post- + bop.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.