Etymology

posture

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Today it means: The way a person holds and positions their body. Full definition →

Middle French posture ← Italian postura ← Latin positūra
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The story

  1. Latin · derived frompositūra“position, situation”
  2. Italian · derived frompostura
  3. Middle French · borrowed fromposture
  4. English todayposture

Borrowed from Middle French posture, from Italian postura, from Latin positūra (“position, situation”). Doublet of positura.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.