posta

See also: Appendix:Variations of "posta"

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpɔs.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpɔs.ta]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Etymology 1

Noun

posta f (plural postes)

1. post (an assigned station)
2. setting

   posta de sol ― sunset

3. laying (the act of laying an egg)

Derived terms

• a posta

Etymology 2

Participle

posta f sg

1. feminine singular of post

Further reading

• “posta”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “posta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “posta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “posta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈposta/
• Rhymes: -osta
• Hyphenation: pos‧ta

Adjective

posta (accusative singular postan, plural postaj, accusative plural postajn)

1. later, posterior

French

Verb

posta

1. third-person singular past historic of poster

Anagrams

• optas, posât

Galician

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Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese posta (“slice, piece”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin positus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɔs.tɐ]

Noun

posta f (plural postas)

1. serving, slice, cut

   Synonym: toro

2. fishery
3. setting
4. laying (the act of laying an egg)

Related terms

• poñer
• por

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “posta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “posta”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “posta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “posta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “posta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN