Etymology

postvocalic

P3O1S1T1V4O1C3A1L1I1C3

Today it means: (Of a phoneme) occurring after a vowel. Full definition →

English vocalic ← French vocalique ← Latin post
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. Frenchvocal
  8. Frenchvocalique
  9. Englishvocalic
  10. English todaypostvocalic

From post- + vocalic.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.