Etymology

postslavery

P3O1S1T1S1L1A1V4E1R1Y4

Today it means: Since the end of a period of slavery. Full definition →

English slavery ← Latin post ← Old Latin poste
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*pós
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pósti
  3. Proto-Italic*posti
  4. Old Latinposte
  5. Latinpost
  6. Englishpost-
  7. Englishslavery
  8. English todaypostslavery

From post- + slavery.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.