Etymology

postscriptum

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Today it means: A thing that has been written afterwards; something appended in writing. Full definition →

Latin postscriptum
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  1. Latin · learned borrowing frompostscriptum
  2. English todaypostscriptum

Learned borrowing from Latin postscriptum, from From post (“after, behind”) + scrīptum (“text, something written”).

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