Etymology

poster

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Today it means: A picture of a celebrity, an event etc., intended to be attached to a wall. Full definition →

English post ← Middle English post ← Old French post
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poster · noun, verb1

  1. Proto-Indo-European*per-der.?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pér
  3. Proto-Indo-European*pró
  4. Proto-Indo-European*steh₂-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*pr̥-sth₂-i-s
  6. Proto-Italic*porstis
  7. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ep
  8. Proto-Indo-European*h₂epó
  9. Proto-Indo-European*h₂pó
  10. Proto-Indo-European*steh₂-
  11. Proto-Indo-European*h₂pó-sth₂-i-s
  12. Proto-Italic*postis
  13. Latinpostis
  14. Old Englishpost
  15. Latinpostis
  16. Old Frenchpost
  17. Middle Englishpost
  18. Englishpost
  19. English todayposter

From post + -er.

poster · noun2

From post + -er, from post (“travel, dispatch”).

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